Blind Man's Bluff (Goya)

Blind Man's Bluff

Artist	Francisco de Goya
Year	1788
Dimensions	269 cm × 350 cm (106 in × 140 in)
Location	Museo del Prado, Madrid

Blind Man's Bluff (Spanish: La gallina ciega) is one of the Rococo oil-on-linen cartoons produced by the Spanish artist Francisco de Goya for tapestries for the Royal Palace of El Pardo. The work shows boys and girls playing the popular pastime "blind man's buff" with one figure in the middle blindfolded and holding a large spoon while trying to entice others dancing around him in a circle.

The children are dressed in the attire of Spanish aristocrats. Some wear velvet jackets and feather headdresses.

The picture is an example of Goya's Rococo period, and is typically lively and with a soft color scheme of pink and yellow in the skirts of women and luminous background scenery. As with many of his tapestry cartoons, it captures a charming moment of life.

See also

• List of Francisco Goya's tapestry cartoons

Sources

• Bozal, Valeriano. Francisco Goya, vida y obra., Madrid, Tf, 2005. 64. ISBN 978-84-96209-39-8.

Francisco Goya
List of works
Paintings	The rape of Europa (1772) Blind Guitarist (1778) Christ Crucified (1780) Maria Teresa de Borbon y Vallabriga (1783) Spring (or The Flower Girls) (1786–1787) The Swing (1787) St Francis Borja at the Deathbed of an Impenitent (1788) Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zúñiga (or Red Boy) (c. 1788) Self-portrait (c. 1790–1795) Little Giants (1791–1792) Portrait of Mariana Waldstein (c. 1792) Strolling Players (1793) Yard with Lunatics (1793–1794) Prison Interior (1793–1794) Marquesa de la Solana (c. 1794–1795) The Duchess of Alba and la Beata, 1795 The White Duchess, 1795 The Black Dutchess (1797) Self-Portrait with Eyeglasses (1797) Witches' Flight (1797–1798) The Spell (1797–1798) The Bewitched Man (1797–1798) The Witches' Kitchen (1797–1798) The Devil's Lamp (1797–1798) The Stone Guest (1797–1798) Witches' Sabbath (1798) Charles IV in his Hunting Clothes (1799) Countess of Chinchon (1800) Portrait of Manuel Godoy (1801) La maja desnuda Charles IV of Spain and His Family (1800–1801) La maja vestida Bartolomé Sureda y Miserol (c. 1803–1804) Portrait of Doña Isabel de Porcel (1804–1805) Portrait of Francisca Sabasa García (1804–1808) Doña Teresa Sureda (c. 1805) Majas on a Balcony (c. 1808–1812) The Colossus (c. 1808–1812) Time (c. 1810–1812) The Second of May 1808 (1814) The Third of May 1808 (1814) The Junta of the Philippines (1815) The Madhouse (1812–1819) The Inquisition Tribunal (1812–1819) The Burial of the Sardine (c. 1816) A Procession of Flagellants (c. 1816) The Forge (c. 1817) The Giant (1818) Self-portrait with Dr Arrieta (1820) Heads in a Landscape (1819–1823) The Milkmaid of Bordeaux (1825–1827) Tapestry cartoons The Parasol (c. 1777) The Grape Harvest (1786) Blind man's bluff (1789) Black Paintings (c. 1819–1823) Saturn Devouring His Son Judith and Holofernes Witches' Sabbath A Pilgrimage to San Isidro La Leocadia Two Old Men Men Reading Man Mocked by Two Women Fight with Cudgels Pilgrimage to the Fountain of San Isidro Atropos Asmodea Two Old Men Eating Soup The Dog
Etchings	Los Caprichos (1797–1798) The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (1797–1798) What a sacrifice! (1797–1798) They say yes and give their hand to the first comer (1797–1798) Que se la llevaron! (1797–1798) You who cannot (1797–1798) The Disasters of War (1810–1820) Contra el bien general (c. 1810) This is worse (c. 1812–1813) May the rope break! (c. 1815) La Tauromaquia (1815–1816) Unfortunate Events in the Front Seats of the Ring of Madrid, and the Death of the Mayor of Torrejón (1815–1816) Los Disparates (1815–1823) A way of flying
Related	Goya: A Life in Song (musical)