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The two large canvases, Blindman's Buff and The Swing, nearly identical in height, were part of a larger decorative scheme that included other garden scenes. They were conceived as decorations to be installed into the paneling on the wall of a salon.
The paintings present similar views of vast and fecund picturesque gardens, peopled with elegantly dressed men, women, and children playing games, conversing, promenading, and dining in an exuberant natural environment. These paintings must be counted among the greatest achievements in eighteenth-century French landscape painting.
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