The Game of Blind Man's Bluff
Medium
etching
Dimensions
43.7 × 61.4 cm
Classification
Department
Prints
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
L. E. Holden Fund
Accession Number
1974.94
Tags
male
About this artwork
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 ne...