Joker

A man wearing a red conical crown and an ornate green military coat sits holding a rifle, an hourglass and turtle at his feet. Beside him a bare-shouldered woman reclines on the floor cradling a pale glowing globe. Above them, a girl in a jeweled headdress stands on a red pedestal with a small monkey, while a white dove flies past a tattered curtain and painted angel fresco behind.

Rich golds, deep greens and warm browns are layered in glazed, textured brushwork, with light falling selectively on the faces and glowing globe against a shadowed backdrop. The stillness of the seated figures, framed by strange props and creatures, gives the scene a hushed, mysterious, dreamlike theatricality.