Study for Le Clown Jaune (The Yellow Clown)

Georges Rouault

About 1930

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Portrait of François de Nesmond wearing a zucchetto and a robe with a cross pendant depicted inside an oval frame. The frame is inscribed, "Franciscus de Nesmond, Episcopus Baiocensis." Below the frame is a coat of arms made of a shield topped with a pope's hat and covered with a wide brimmed cardinal hat with flowing tassels.
Two monkeys are depicted. One crouches on the ground holding a fruit. The other reclines on a broken tree.
Adam van Noort was a history painter from Antwerp and a teacher of Rubens. He is seen here in portrait from the waist up, looking out to the proper right. He wears a wide frilled collar with a long cloak that he gathers at his stomach with his left hand. He stands against a brick colomn. This is from the Gillis Hendricx edition of the Iconography (Icones Principum Virorum Doctorum, Pictorum Chalcographorum Statuorum nec non Amatorum Pictoriae Artis Numero Centum), 1632-44.
Scene of glassblowers at work. The furnace sits on the left and workers surround it. A larger man, identified as the famous glassblower of the time, Seguso, sits in a chair near the furnace.