Pierrot and Harlequin (Contemporary Still Life Theatre Painting), Evgeny Grichuk, Framed

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This charming painting by Russian painter Evgeny Grichuk features costuming related to two stock characters from commedia dell'arte, with origins … more This charming painting by Russian painter Evgeny Grichuk features costuming related to two stock characters from commedia dell'arte, with origins in the late seventeenth-century Italian troupe of players performing in Paris known as the Comédie-Italienne: Pierrot (the clown), a character of pantomime, and a harlequin, a "zanni" or comic servant character. A fanciful, happy, theatrical painting, with wonderful use of a purposely limited palette. Framed and ready to hang.
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