In Harlequin of summer 1901, the protagonist is treated as a bold chequer-board surface as flat and decorative as the frieze of red and yellow flowers above his head.

Harlequin (/ ˈ h ɑːr l ə k w ɪ n /, Italian: Arlecchino, Italian: [arlekˈkiːno]; Lombard: Arlechin, Lombard:) is the best-known of the comic servant characters from the Italian commedia dell'arte, associated with the city of Bergamo.

Acrobat and Young Harlequin (French: Acrobate et jeune Arlequin) is a 1905 oil on canvas painting by Pablo Picasso. Painted toward the end of Picasso's Blue Period and the outset of his Rose Period, the work displays characteristics of both, with its melancholic subject and its blue and rose palette. [1] .

However, Picasso gave his Harlequin a white face and ruffs: the attributes of Pierrot, the melancholy, cuckolded clown who inevitably loses his love, Columbine, to the nimble and lusty Harlequin.

Harlequin with Glass was painted by Picasso in 1905. During this year Picasso's style underwent changes determined in part by personal reasons, yet at the same time reflecting rapid maturation of talent.

Harlequin is a painting of 1913 by the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. It can loosely be considered a portrait of a harlequin, but through the lens of Picasso's cubist style, in which "Picasso paints a figure from several angles at once, dividing it into rectangles and circles".

Harlequin's traditional diamond patterned costume, bicorn hat, and the wooden sword that denoted his buffoonery have appealed to artists from the eighteenth century to the twentieth, and the character appears in Watteau's Italian Comedians and Picasso's Family of Saltimbanques.

Paul Cézanne painted four works with Commedia dell'Arte subjects between 1888 and 1890—three isolated Harlequins, of which the work to the right is the largest, and a Mardi Gras scene with Harlequin and Pierrot.

The artwork, titled “Harlequin,” was created by the celebrated artist Pablo Picasso in 1918. This piece is a notable expression of the Cubist movement, of which Picasso was a pioneering figure. The genre of the artwork is a portrait, which reflects the Cubist style’s characteristic fragmented representation and abstracted form.

The presence of Harlequin in this enigmatic picture—signaled by the bicorne hat and the lozenges at lower right—identifies this work as a self-portrait, for Harlequin was the artist's known alter ego.