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The Game of Blind Man's Bluff

1739

Charles-Nicolas Cochin

(French, 1715–1790)

after Nicolas Lancret

(French, 1690–1743)
Culture
France, 18th century
Medium
etching
Credit Line
L. E. Holden Fund 1974.94
Catalogue raisonné
Bocher 42 / Fonds Français 18th siecle IV.640.259
State
I/III
Public Domain
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Location
Not on view
Print

Description

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.
A horizontally oriented print in black ink depicts a group in eighteenth-century clothing in a wooded park. Centrally, a blindfolded man extends his arms toward a woman. To our left, a man holds a dog near a fountain with a reclining figure. Behind the cluster, a massive stone urn sits atop a pedestal. Fine cross-hatching and etching shade the dense foliage and ornate stone architecture.

The Game of Blind Man's Bluff

1739

Charles-Nicolas Cochin, Nicolas Lancret

(French, 1715–1790), (French, 1690–1743)
France, 18th century

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