Deburau’s Romantic admirers often made the association with the clown and the moon. Banville’s poem "Pierrot" (1842) concludes with these lines: “The white Moon with its horns like a bull / Peeps behind the scenes / At its friend Jean Gaspard Deburau.” As the century progressed, the association grew stronger. Albert Giraud's Pierrot lunaire (1884) marked a watershed in the moon-maddening of Pierrot, as did the song-cycle that Arnold Schoenberg derived from it (1912).
