The Game of Blind Man's Bluff
Charles-Nicolas Cochin (French, 1715–1790)
after Nicolas Lancret (French, 1690–1743)
1739
- Medium
- etching
- Classification
- Culture
- France
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Prints
- Credit line
- L. E. Holden Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Adult profiles and older: its museum's description or title mentions nudity. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this 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.
