Harlequin with Glass by Pablo Picasso (1905)
The harlequin was introduced by the Italian actor Tristano Martinelli in the 1580s, and it became a stock (commonly used) character after Tristano’s death in 1630. The white-face clown we know today was begun in the early 1800s.
Asleep by Pablo Picasso
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