Blind Man's Bluff (Fragonard)
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| Artist | Jean-Honore Fragonard |
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| Year | c.1760 |
| Type | oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 114 cm × 90 cm (45 in × 35 in) |
| Location | Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio |
Blind man's bluff is a painting by the French Roccoco painter Jean Honoré Fragonard, produced around 1769 in oil on canvas. It is full of deceptions - the girl is looking out from under her blindfold and the game seems to be a pretext leading to seduction; the two figures are in pastoral costume, but may be noble or bourgeois figures playing at being pastoral figures; the background seems to be a wood but could be a stage set. In short, it seems to abolish the boundary between truth and lies, reality and fiction[1].
[edit] Notes
- ^ (Spanish) Eva-Gesine Baur, «El rococó y el neoclasicismo » in Los maestros de la pintura occidental, Taschen, 2005, page 360, ISBN 3-8228-4744-5
