Hieronymus Bosch, 1475–1480
 Hieronymus Bosch was an Early Netherlandish painter (painters from the Low Countries during the 15th and early 16th century, beginning with Jan van Eyck and ending with Gerard David - read more).
Many of Bosch's paintings are concerned with sin and human failing - you may be familiar with his paintings of hell for example. He was very imaginative and often incorporated demons into his works such as the one shown here.
Read more about Hieronymus Bosch at Wikipedia, at the Bosch and Bruegel Society website, The World of Bosch, an article from the 1988 copy of The Smithsonian, and an article from LiveJournal that looks at several of Bosch's paintings. And if you really thirsty for information on Bosch, you can read (online) the book entitled Hieronymus Bosch, by Walter Bosing, on Google Books.
The Conjurer, c.1475
Musée Municipal, Saint-Germain-en-Laye.
The bending character on the left is not only being duped by the conjurer on the right but is also being pickpocketed by the bespectacled man in white standing directly behind.
You can read (online) more about this painting in detail in the book "What Great Paintings Say" by Rose-Marie Hagen and Rainer Hagen courtesy of Google Books. Highly recommended.
See a larger image of this painting.
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