Blind Man's Buff (Fragonard, 1775–1780)
Blind Man's Buff is a 1775-1780 painting by Jean-Honoré Fragonard, produced after the artist's second journey to Italy in 1773–74. It is now in the Timken Museum of Art in San Diego, California.[1][2]
Well-dressed men, women and children play the familiar game in a picturesque overgrown garden. Fragonard's favorite subject, he may have viewed the games as symbolizing the game of courtship. According to eighteenth-century engravings of the painting and another earlier version of the subject both may have originally been as much as a foot higher at the top.
References[]
- ^ "Blindman's Buff | Timken Museum".
- ^ "18thcenturylove". 18thcenturylove.tumblr.com. Retrieved 11 June 2013.
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