Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun, by Nicolas Poussin, 1658
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Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun

Nicolas Poussin (French, Les Andelys 1594–1665 Rome)

1658

Medium
Oil on canvas
Classification
Paintings
Dimensions
46 7/8 x 72 in. (119.1 x 182.9 cm)
Culture
French
Museum
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, European Paintings
Credit line
Fletcher Fund, 1924
Rights
Public domain (Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed

View at the The Metropolitan Museum of Art