Probably the luckiest guy ever
 

Just found this lucky chap in a book and didn´t want to withhold him from you :)

I hope he has good health insurance!

Is there more info in the book about what he is? Is he the sample and options catalog for a smith? Is he a courtier dressing for his and his colleagues' amusement?

Anyhow he shouldn´t stumble :)

There is just the discription "Habit de Fourbisseur", copper engraving by Nicola de Larmessin, Paris around 1695

Thank you!

Google translate can't handle fourbisseur. But I found a definition in a French dictionary: Person whose task is to furnish, mount or repair bladed weapons to make them brighter.

Also, if you do a Google Image search for "Habit de Fourbisseur" there are a lot of entertaining images from other pages of the same book.

I think they might be costumes for pageant entertainers or the invention of the artist to entertain the nobility with the day-to-day of their subjects?

Nice Halloween costume!

It's hell for him at airports, though... ;)

Luckily, they didn't have TSA back then... ;)

Luckily, they didn't have TSA back then... ;)

He probably is saying to himself

"I just don't get the point"

sorry i couldn't resist this joke
Ken

He just lives in a really bad neighbourhood.

I alway's wondered were the expression " armed to the teeth" came from ….

Reminds me of Rick's palace guard

What amazes me is the lack of foot protection, only sandals.
One good cut to the feet and he's down.

How it became a 'modern' plausible situation ... painted and real.


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