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Count the tall hats, then follow the long spoon from the cook standing at the right to the hungry Punchinellos crouching at the left.
Punchinello, a tragicomic character of the Italian commedia dell’arte, is known by his tall conical hat and beaked mask. Here a group of Punchinellos cook gnocchi in a pot over a fire and taste them straight from a long spoon. Tiepolo’s son Domenico later devoted a whole series of 104 drawings to Punchinello’s life.
Pen and brown ink, and brush and brown wash, over a graphite underdrawing, on cream laid paper · 19.7 × 23.1 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Rococo
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- Museum title
- Punchinellos Cooking and Tasting Gnocchi (Punchinellos' Repast)
- Artist
- Giovanni Battista Tiepolo Italian, 1696–1770
- Date
- 1740/52
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, and brush and brown wash, over a graphite underdrawing, on cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- 19.7 × 23.1 cm (7 13/16 × 9 1/8 in.)
- Credit line
- Helen Regenstein Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.