It is a role traditionally played by a tall,  thin young man with his face and hair covered with white powder or flour.
Poets and artists have transformed this stock character from the commedia dell'arte to an artist-lover of soaring  imagination, who grimly hides his real passions behind a comic mask. It is a role traditionally played by a tall,  thin young man with his face and hair covered with white powder or flour. He wears a white gown with very long  sleeves and a row of big buttons down the front. FTP identify this lover of Columbine and rival of Harlequin.
Poets and artists have transformed this stock character from the commedia dell'arte to an artist-lover of soaring  imagination, who grimly hides his real passions behind a comic mask.
Pierrot or Little Peter