Jokester posters & prints

Fools Head, c. 1560 Anonymous

Jesters playing Cochonnet, 1868 Eduardo Zamacois y Zabala

Carnival in Rome (Detail), c. 1650 Johannes Lingelbach

The Mocking of Human Follies Frans Verbeeck

Masked Ball Anonymous

Natural Fools (The Triumphal Procession of the Emperor Maximilian I), ca 1515 Hans Burgkmair the Elder

Jean-Gaspard Deburau as Pierrot, 1845 Auguste Bouquet

In skomorokh dress, 1882 Viktor Mikhaylovich Vasnetsov

Harlequins, 1913 Konstantin Andreyevich Somov

A Masked Joker, 1668 Caspar Netscher

Musicians and acrobats (detail) Ancient Russian frescos

Laughing Jester School Netherlandish

Masked Ball Charles Hermans

Minstrels and Jugglers at Court, 1882 Anonymous

Musicians and acrobats (detail) Ancient Russian frescos

Masquerade, 1913-1914 Boris Dmitryevich Grigoriev

Harlequin and Death, 1918 Konstantin Andreyevich Somov

Arriving at the Theatre on a Night of a Masked Ball Eugenio Lucas Villaamil

Harlequin hits a jester Pieter Schenk II

Musicians and acrobats (detail) Ancient Russian frescos

Leaving the Masqued Ball José García y Ramos

Jester Anonymous

Pierrot Content, ca 1712 Jean Antoine Watteau

Harlequin and Death, 1907 Konstantin Andreyevich Somov

Illustration for War of Petrushka and Stepka-Rastrepka by Evgeni Schwartz, 1925 Alexei Alexandrovich Radakov

The Jester George Henry Hall

The skomorokhs. Costume design for the opera Prince Igor by A. Borodin, 1914 Nicholas Roerich

Leaving the Masqued Ball Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta

A Good Joke Louis Charles Moeller

Rendezvous, c. 1918 Konstantin Andreyevich Somov

The Outline of Sanity Satirical Cartoon of G.K. Chesterton Anonymous

La Maison Du Rire Poster Caro

Jester with a violin Frederik de Wit

Killing Joke poster Rokpool

A Covert Joke from the Drawing by Sidney Paget Anonymous

A jester with a cat Jacob Jordaens