Jokester posters & prints

Musicians and acrobats (detail) Ancient Russian frescos

In skomorokh dress, 1882 Viktor Mikhaylovich Vasnetsov

Fools Head, c. 1560 Anonymous

Musicians and acrobats (detail) Ancient Russian frescos

Musicians and acrobats (detail) Ancient Russian frescos

The Mocking of Human Follies Frans Verbeeck

Pierrot Content, ca 1712 Jean Antoine Watteau

Masquerade, 1913-1914 Boris Dmitryevich Grigoriev

Jesters playing Cochonnet, 1868 Eduardo Zamacois y Zabala

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

Minstrels and Jugglers at Court, 1882 Anonymous

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

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

Jean-Gaspard Deburau as Pierrot, 1845 Auguste Bouquet

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

Harlequins, 1913 Konstantin Andreyevich Somov

Leaving the Masqued Ball José García y Ramos

Leaving the Masqued Ball Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta

Harlequin and Death, 1907 Konstantin Andreyevich Somov

Masked Ball Anonymous

Harlequin and Death, 1918 Konstantin Andreyevich Somov

Masked Ball Charles Hermans

Rendezvous, c. 1918 Konstantin Andreyevich Somov

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