Lot 136
  • 136

Venetian School, 18th Century

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
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Description

  • Venetian School, 18th century
  • Two scenes of the infancy of Punchinello
  • Both pen and brown ink over black chalk;
    one inscribed in pen and brown ink: Pulcinello alla Balia

     

Provenance

Francesco Dubini (L.987a)

Condition

Some light foxing and staining on both; small square of paper on verso of second, behind head of nurse, to stabilize paper where ink has eaten through a tiny bit.
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Catalogue Note

Punchinello was a popular figure in Venetian art and theater, known for his mischievous antics.  The most famous representation of his life and activities is the series of drawings by Domenico Tiepolo.1  The present examples are executed in the spirit of an illustrator such as Pietro Antonio Novelli. 

1.  See Domenico Tiepolo's Punchinello Drawings, exhib. cat., Bloomington, Indiana University Art Museum, et al., 1979