Prankster posters & prints

The Pranksters, 1866 Basile de Loose

The Class Pranksters, Auguste Joseph Trupheme

Fools Head, c. 1560 Anonymous

Jesters playing Cochonnet, 1868 Eduardo Zamacois y Zabala

Masked Ball Anonymous

Masked Ball Charles Hermans

The Mocking of Human Follies Frans Verbeeck

In skomorokh dress, 1882 Viktor Mikhaylovich Vasnetsov

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

The Widows House (Second Trick), 1865. Wilhelm Busch

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

Musicians and acrobats (detail) Ancient Russian frescos

Musicians and acrobats (detail) Ancient Russian frescos

Leaving the Masqued Ball Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta

Musicians and acrobats (detail) Ancient Russian frescos

Pierrot Content, ca 1712 Jean Antoine Watteau

Jean-Gaspard Deburau as Pierrot, 1845 Auguste Bouquet

Masquerade, 1913-1914 Boris Dmitryevich Grigoriev

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

Leaving the Masqued Ball José García y Ramos

Harlequin and Death, 1907 Konstantin Andreyevich Somov

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

Rendezvous, c. 1918 Konstantin Andreyevich Somov

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

Harlequin and Death, 1918 Konstantin Andreyevich Somov

Harlequins, 1913 Konstantin Andreyevich Somov