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Blind Man’s Bluff

Academician / French / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) - 12 months ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “Blindekuhspiel” of 1776 by Jean-Honoré Fragonard.  This French artist was forty-four when he created this Late Rococo landscape depicting a game of blind man’s bluff.  The vivid colors and veiled sensuality were precursors of later Romanticism.  He won the Prix de Rome in 1752 and four years later arrived at the Eternal City at the age of twenty-four.  He became influenced by the Dutch Masters and by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo and returned to Paris in 1761 where he entered the Academy within four years.  He became a great favorite of the members of the court of Louis XV but fled Paris at the outset of the French Revolution.  He lived quietly in the south of France until near his death when he returned to Paris where he died in 1806.  This work is 198 cm wide and 216 cm high and is in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D. C.

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