A Spring Shower — About This Work
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, 1797–1804
About the Work
Figures shelter beneath umbrellas during a spring shower. The weather is registered through their responses, making a passing change of conditions into a scene of shared activity.
The museum places the drawing within Domenico Tiepolo's series of 104 Punchinello sheets, Entertainment for Children. The recurring comic character allows daily incidents to become theatrical without losing their recognisable practical details.
Brown ink and wash give the umbrellas and figures a common tonal language. The bordered sheet holds their varied movements together, inviting close attention to the humour of small adjustments to an ordinary inconvenience.
The Work
Artist: Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo
Title: A Spring Shower
Date: 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
Recorded dimensions: 47.1 × 35.5 cm (W × H)
Collection: Cleveland Museum of Art
Accession number: 1937.573
Print & Presentation
Palatine presentation: 45 × 60 cm Classic Frame, landscape.
The complete artwork is reproduced at its recorded scale, subject only to negligible whole-pixel rounding, without enlargement, reduction, cropping or distortion. The surrounding white presentation area accommodates the artwork within the framed presentation and is incorporated into the print rather than added as a separate mount.
Frame finishes: Black, White or Natural.
Paper & glazing: Enhanced Matte + Perspex; or Enhanced Matte + Moth-Eye.
Why Original Scale?
Most art-print shops offer the same image in a choice of Small, Medium and Large sizes. We take a different approach. For each edition, we begin with the recorded dimensions of the original work and reproduce the complete image at that scale, preserving its proportions and avoiding enlargement, reduction, cropping or distortion.
Source: Image: The Cleveland Museum of Art, CC0. Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund. 1937.573.
Care: Display in a dry interior away from prolonged direct sunlight and sources of moisture.
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