Blind Man's Buff (Fragonard, 1775–1780)

(Redirected from Blind Man's Buff (Fragonard, 1775-1780)) Painting by Jean-Honoré Fragonard

Blind Man's Buff is an oil-on-canvas painting by Jean-Honoré Fragonard, produced ca. 1775–1780 after the artist's second journey to Italy in 1773–74. It is now in the Timken Museum of Art in San Diego, California.

Well-dressed men, women and children play the familiar game in a picturesque overgrown garden. Fragonard's favorite subject, he may have viewed the game 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.

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"Blindman's Buff | Timken Museum".
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List of works
Paintings	Blind Man's Buff (c. 1750) The See-Saw (Madrid; c. 1750–1752) Jeroboam Sacrificing to Idols (1752) Psyche Showing Her Sisters Her Gifts from Cupid (1753) The Birth of Venus (c. 1753) The Storm (c. 1759) The Palette Game (c. 1761–1765) The See-Saw (Louvre; c. 1761–1765) Coresus Sacrificing Himself to Save Callirhoe (1765) The Swing (c. 1767) Fantastical Portraits (1769) Jean-Claude Richard, Abbot of Saint-Non, Dressed à l'Espagnole (c. 1769) The Woman With A Dog (1769) The New Model (c. 1770) A Young Girl Reading (c. 1770) The Music Lesson (c. 1770) The Raised Chemise (c. 1770) Adoration of the Shepherds (1775) The Visit to the Nursery (1775) Blind Man's Buff (1775-1780) The Bolt (1777) The Stolen Kiss (c. 1780)
Related	Marie-Anne Fragonard (wife) Alexandre-Évariste Fragonard (son) Marguerite Gérard (sister-in-law) Rococo

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