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| after Giambattista Tiepolo Punchinellos cooking etching 1751 Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| after Giambattista Tiepolo Punchinellos cooking etching 1751 Victoria & Albert Museum |
There is a pair of Punchinello etchings in the Victoria & Albert Museum based on designs by the best-known and worthiest master of Venetian rococo, Giambattista Tiepolo (1696-1770). The active, curious and unsmiling Punchinello character was firmly embedded in the Tiepolo family repertoire. Giambattista's son Giandomenico Tiepolo (1727-1804) made scores of Punchinello drawings in brown wash toward the end of his own life. In retirement, drawing for personal pleasure, Giandomenico could afford to ignore the arrival of the new century when the age of fantasy and improvisation he had known would be replaced by the far grimmer age of machinery and systems.
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| Giandomenico Tiepolo Punchinello's pregnant mother c. 1800 drawing Metropolitan Museum |
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| Giandomenico Tiepolo Newborn Punchinello in his parents' bed c. 1800 drawing Metropolitan Museum |
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| Giandomenico Tiepolo Punchinellos removing dead chickens from a well c. 1800 drawing Metropolitan Museum |
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| Giandomenico Tiepolo Punchinellos chopping down a tree c. 1800 drawing Metropolitan Museum |
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| Giandomenico Tiepolo Punchinellos outside a circus c. 1800 drawing Metropolitan Museum |
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| Giandomenico Tiepolo Punchinello flogged c. 1800 drawing Metropolitan Museum |
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| Giandomenico Tiepolo Punchinello as dressmaker c. 1800 drawing Metropolitan Museum |
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| Giandomenico Tiepolo Punchinello as tailor's assistant c. 1800 drawing Metropolitan Museum |
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| Giandomenico Tiepolo Punchinellos with a donkey ridden by a monkey carrying a dead chicken c. 1800 drawing British Museum |
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| Giandomenico Tiepolo Burial of Punchinello c. 1800 drawing Metropolitan Museum |