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Two Laughing Jesters
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Two Laughing Jesters

Pieter Xaveri · 1673 · modeling; terracotta (clay material)

From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

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One figure sits on an overturned basket, three-quarter view to the right with head turned left; the other, with head in the same direction, stands behind him with bent knees, hands on his shoulders; both gaze in the same direction. They have round, smiling faces with open mouths showing tongues and teeth. The seated jester points forward with his right hand and holds a stick with bells (a whip with bells?) against his chest with the other. A wart is on his cheek. He wears a jester's cap with a decorated hem, from which bells hang, over a garment with narrow sleeves and a mantle with wide flaring sleeves, the right sleeve concealing a staff with a jester's head. The mantle covers his entire left leg but leaves the right leg with breeches free. The latter has a decorated band with bells below the knee, is gathered at the ankles, and falls over the boot.

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Credit lineTwo Laughing Jesters. 1673. Pieter Xaveri. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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