The Blind Leading the Blind
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![Gluttony, Bruegel, 1558. This early work follows the busy, fantastical work of Bosch.](/Images/godic/202502/15/Brueghel_-_Sieben_Laster_-_Gula4232.jpg")
The Blind Leading the Blind, Blind, or The Parable of the Blind (Dutch:De parabel der blinden) is a painting by the Flemish renaissance artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder, completed in 1568. Executed in distemper on linen canvas, it measures 86 cm × 154 cm (34 in × 61 in). It depicts the Biblical parable of the blind leading the blind from the Gospel of Matthew 15:14, and is held in the collection of the Museo di Capodimonte in Naples, Italy.