In the 18th-century fairs, Pierrot, the commedia's clumsy buffoon dressed in white linen, gained prominence alongside stock characters like Columbine and Polichinelle, evolving to be featured in French porcelain, print, photography, and film up to 1945's Les Enfants du Paradis.
Marika Knowles's monograph on Pierrot focuses on how Pierrot's awkward disjointedness symbolized 18th- and 19th-century marketplaces, including literal markets and figurative 'human personae,' diverging from previous general critical histories of Pierrot.
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