Laughing Jester with Fool's Flask

Public Domain

Artist(s) / maker(s)

Jan Saenredam (engravers (printmakers))
,
Hendrick Goltzius (after)

Date

ca. 1590 - 1600

Period

16th century

Collection

Museum of Fine Arts Ghent
A jester laughingly points to his fool's flask. The staff has a jester's head sticking out its tongue. To the left behind is a gatehouse and to the right behind are two figures dressed in cloaks, perhaps monks. Below the depiction is a two-line text in Dutch, German and French.

More about this work

Features
Artist(s) / maker(s) Jan Saenredam VIAF RKD Wikidata, Hendrick Goltzius VIAF RKD Wikidata
Type burin engraving
Category prints (visual works)
Material paper
Dimensions 256 x 178 mm
Location Work currently not on display
Object number 2014-NF
Description
Subject figures (representations)
Tags male sex; man Iconclass, fool's cap Iconclass, court jester, court fool Iconclass, attributes of court jester Iconclass, bauble Iconclass, gate, entrance Iconclass, city-gate Iconclass, civic architecture; edifices; dwellings Iconclass, monk(s), friar(s) Iconclass, Mockery, Derision, Irreverence; 'Derisione', 'Dispreggio della Virtu' (Ripa) Iconclass, tongue stuck out Iconclass, pointing to the forehead with the index finger Iconclass, art (+ copy, copying ~ work of art) Iconclass
Linked open data
Data PURL https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/2014-NF
IIIF manifest https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/11737/manifest.json
LIDO XML https://datahub.vlaamsekunstcollectie.be/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_lido&identifier=oai:datahub.vlaamsekunstcollectie.be:mskgent.be:2014-NF
Vlaamse Kunstcollectie - EN

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