Cornelis Cornelisz Van Haarlem, Dutch
“Sorry, I’ve Got a Policy Against Having Sex With Court Jesters. But We Can Fool Around a Little,” 1595
Oil on canvas
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Info, or perhaps links that point to more info, about this artist can be found here, here (archived if necessary), here, here, here, here (can be read in full for free on Fridays), here, here, here, and here (archived if necessary), perhaps in addition to what’s in his Wikipedia page (Google translated Dutch Wikipedia page may have more).
/// They’re soon parted— a fool and his money.
(And, when broke, the Fool parts with his honey.)
Here, A Fool with Two Women
made one eat a persimmon.
Her expression says, “That wasn’t funny!”
/// She is clearly upset and resented
having chewed bitter fruit he presented.
Her blithe sister in pink
only came here to drink,
while the Fool’s face says: brute who’s demented.
/// Here with Chester, the second-rate Jester,
are the Van Dijk girls, Hester and Esther.
They’ll succumb, Chester thinks,
if he buys enough drinks,
but he’s too drunk to be a molester.
/// Chet became a Fool due to the rumor
that one male gift girls fall for is humor.
But his idea of wit
and theirs vary a bit.
“Funny’s” in the ear of the consumer.
/// When a Fool and two Dutch ladies meet,
Double Dutch well might generate heat.
But not by jumping rope.
With a lecherous hope
he desired from each girl a Dutch Treat.
/// Artist adds a “z” after his name;
first and middle are nearly the same.
And this pattern holds true
for his paintings. A few
look alike— which was Van Haarlem’s aim.
(There are several very similar paintings of this trio with certain details added or changed. Internet captions indicate that some or all of them have the same name.)