Comedian at a court at the height of power seeing the beginnings of the inevitable fall but unable to persuade others or be treated seriously. It depicts "good

Comedian at a court at the height of power seeing the beginnings of the inevitable fall but unable to persuade others or be treated seriously. It depicts "good old times" and was painted when Poland was partitioned between Russia, Germany and Austro-Hungary, and doing a failed uprising every 20 years.