Provenance

Henry Oppenheimer, F.S.A. (1859-1932), London (his sale:  London, Christie’s, 10-14 July 1936, lot 185 [A]), where purchased by

Sir Francis Osbert Sacheverell Sitwell, 5th Bt. CH (1892-1969), Weston Hall, Weston, Northants.

Thence by descent

Literature

G. Knox, “Domenico Tiepolo’s Punchinello Drawings: Satire, or Labor of Love?,” in J. D. Browning, (ed.), Satire in the 18th Century, New York, 1983, pp. 132, 138, plate 5

G. Knox, “The Punchinello Drawings of Giambattista Tiepolo,” in D. Rosand, (ed.), Interpretazioni Veneziane studi de storia dell’arte in onore di Michelangelo Muraro, Venice, 1984, p. 441, fig. 5

B. Aikema, Tiepolo and His Circle:  Drawings in American Collections, exhibition catalogue, New York, The Pierpont Morgan Library, and Cambridge, Harvard University Art Museums, 1996-1997, under cat. no. 79

V. S. Goldman, “The Most Beautiful Punchinelli in the World”: A Comprehensive Study of the Punchinello Drawings of Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, unpublished doctoral dissertation, Princeton University, April 2012, pp. 390-93, cat. no. 4, fig. 4

Drawn circa 1735

PRIVATE COLLECTION, NEW YORK