Foolery shines everywhere!

Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb 

like the sun, it shines everywhere.

~ William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

Enjoy this collection I have gathered of 
jesters, harlequins, jokers, and fools. —DC

Stańczyk, by Jan Matejko c 1514

Farnos the Red Nose, by Jacques Callot (c. 1592-1635)

Russian woodcut with watercolors

Print by Franz Isaac Brun (1555-1610)

Victorian Jester, color print, artist unknown

Jester, by Jeff Hall

Harlequin, by Paul Cézanne

A fool facing left; bust-length figure, resting his chin on his right hand; 

wearing a chain with a large medallion; a fly on his fool's cap. 

1568  Print made by Hans Hanberg 1568

Acrobat and Young Harlequin, by Pablo Picasso

 Jester, by James Butler, at Stratford upon Avon, UK

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The head of Harlequin, by Pablo Picasso

The Fool By Heinrich Vogtherr, 1513-1568

Dreary Harlequin, by Spiros Dmitriy

After Pieter Jansz Date 1638-1678

Portrait- of a seated jester (Sebastian de Morra), by Diego Velázquez

Portrait of a Harlequin, by Pablo Picasso

Joker playing card

Harlequin by Myra Evans

Joker

Harlequin Seated in Cafe, by Pablo Picasso

Maurice Masques et bouffons  Arlecchino 1671

Jesters from a 13th Century manuscript

Pierrot and Harlequin, by Philipe Mercier

Pierrot Court jester, artist unknown

vintage playing card jester

Fool tarot card

Print made by Franz Isaac Brun (1555-1610)

Tarot Card, the Fool

A fool trying to hatch an empty egg, after Pieter Bruegel the elder; 

drinking from a glass, a fool's bauble seen through the hole of the egg. 

1569 Pen and brown ink

Bronze Jester, by Pablo Picasso

Farnos and Pigasya, the red-nosed drunks, by Jacques Callot (c. 1592-1635)

Russian woodcut with watercolors

Two Fools of Carnival, artist unknown

Pierrot, by Pablo Picasso

Print by Franz Isaac Brun (1555-1610)

Vintage playing card joker

Friends In Council, by John Dawson Watson