The Game of Bowls
1790s
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (Italian, 1727–1804)
Drawings
The Game of Bowls, 1790s. Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (Italian, 1727–1804). Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, over traces of black chalk; framing lines in brown ink over graphite; sheet: 35.5 x 47.3 cm (14 x 18 5/8 in.); image: 29.7 x 41.6 cm (11 11/16 x 16 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1937.571
- Maker/Artist
- Tiepolo, Giovanni Domenico
- Classification
- Drawing
- Formatted Medium
- pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, over traces of black chalk; framing lines in brown ink over graphite
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 35.5 x 47.3 cm (14 x 18 5/8 in.); Image: 29.7 x 41.6 cm (11 11/16 x 16 3/8 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: signed, lower left, in brown ink: Dom°. Tiepolo f ; upper left, in brown ink: 20 ; upper left, in graphite: o ; lower right, in graphite: 20 [sideways] ; VERSO, upper right, in blue crayon: 3
- Departments
- Drawings
- Accession Number
- 1937.571
- Credit Line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Exhibitions
- Old Master Drawings from the Museum Collection, Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition, Italian and French Drawings, Italian Prints and Drawings, Domenico Tiepolo's Punchinello Drawings, The Tiepolos and Their World, Venice as City and Theater, Domenico Tiepolo: Master Draftsman, Comicity and Caricature in Tiepolo's Art, CMA, Venice As City and Theater (Feb. 27-Apr. 21, 1985).<br>CMA, The Tiepolos and Their World (Oct. 6-Nov. 22, 1981).<br>Bloomington, Indiana University Art Museum, Works of Domenico Tiepolo (1979), no. 21, illus.<br>CMA, Italian Prints and Drawings (Jan. 30-Mar. 26, 1968).<br>CMA, Italian and French Drawings (Oct. 13, 1959-Feb. 2, 1960).<br>Baltimore Museum of Art, The Age of Elegance: Rococo and Its Effect (Apr. 25-June 14, 1959), no. 223.<br>CMA, Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition (Mar. 3, 1958-?).<br>CMA, "End of Continuous Exhibition of CMA Old Master Drawings in Director's Corridor in Old Bldg." (closed Mar. 13, 1957).<br>CMA, installed, director's corridor (Oct. 19, 1954).<br>Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Five Centuries of Drawings (Oct. 15-Nov. 15, 1953), no. 67.<br>CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (rearranged: Jan. 21, 1953).<br>CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (June 30-Dec. 8, 1950; rehung Jan. 8, 1951, "with small changes").<br>from June 30, 1950).<br>CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (May. 14, 1946- ).<br>CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (July 27, 1944- ).<br>CMA, "Paintings and Drawings from the Collection" (Dec. 14, 1943-Jan. 4, 1944).<br>CMA (hung Oct. 13, 1940).<br>San Francisco?, Golden Gate International Exposition (May 25-Sep. 29, 1940), no. 499.--NOTE: from Reg. file: "in a separate cat., "Master Drawings," this is no. 100 (illus.)--publ. Art News (20 May 1939)"--<br>CMA (Mar. 12-Apr. 21, 1940).<br>CMA, "Life of Pulcinella" Series (Mar. 30-Apr. 30, 1939).<br>CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (Jan. 4-Mar. 26, 1939).<br>CMA, Drawings by Old and Modern Masters from the Collection (June 21-Sep. 30, 1938).<br>Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, Italy (9/3/2004 - 12/5/2004): "Comicity and Caricaure in Tiepolo's Art" exh. cat. no. 130, p. 192-193.
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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