A Spring Shower
1797–1804
- Medium
- pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash over black chalk; framing lines in brown ink over graphite on antique laid paper
- Dimensions
- 35.5 × 47.1 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-191601
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, an important Venetian fresco painter of the 18th century, is best known today for his highly finished historical drawings that ingeniously incorporate details from daily life. In his series of 104 drawings known as Divertimento per li Regazzi (Entertainment for Children), he featured the Punchinello character from the Italian tradition of popular theater, a picaresque clown figure with a hooked nose, hunched back, and bloated belly. The character appears repeatedly in Tiepolo's sprawling narrative that rehearses the social mores of late 18th-century Venice through g…
Provenance
Wade Fund, 1937.573
Registry history
- 1797–1804 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — drawings
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