Blindman's Buff
Jean Honoré Fragonard
c. 1775/1780
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 216.2 × 197.8 cm (85 1/8 × 77 7/8 in.) framed: 246.38 × 228.92 × 16.51 cm (97 × 90 1/8 × 6 1/2 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CF
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Samuel H. Kress Collection
Accession Number
1961.9.16
About the Artist
Jean Honoré Fragonard · 1732–1806
Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806) was a French painter and printmaker whose late Rococo manner was distinguished by remarkable facility, exuberance, and hedonism. Born in Grasse, he moved to Paris where he trained under Jean-Baptiste Chardin and François Boucher, winning the prestigious Prix de Rome in 1752. After studying in Italy alongside Hubert Robert, Fragonard returned to Paris in 1761 to fi...