The Game of Blind Man's Bluff (1739): Art, History and Details

The Game of Blind Man's Bluff (1739) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Charles-Nicolas Cochin (French, 1715–1790); Nicolas Lancret (French, 1690–1743).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Specially trained printmakers like Cochin reproduced and popularized other artists’ works in printed form. His free and spontaneous style of etching translates Lancret’s original painting with a lighthearted quality appropriate to this bucolic setting and fête champêtre, a festive outdoor party enjoyed especially by members of the French aristocracy. The fashionable garden’s rococo balustrade, with its cascading arrangement of nude statues, is reminiscent of Boucher’s fountain designs on view nearby.

Object facts

• Title: The Game of Blind Man's Bluff
• Date: 1739
• Creator attribution: Charles-Nicolas Cochin (French, 1715–1790); Nicolas Lancret (French, 1690–1743)
• Culture: France
• Type: Print
• Technique: etching
• Collection: PR - Etching
• Department: Prints
• Accession number: 1974.94

Collection credit

L. E. Holden Fund

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