Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun
Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun is a mid 17th-century painting by French artist Nicolas Poussin. Done in oil on canvas, the paintings depicts a scene in which the mythological figure Orion - having been blinded - searches for the rising sun. The painting's scene was inspired by the Assyrian writer Lucian's writings on Greek mythology, including the Orion legend. Poussin painted Blind Orion on behalf of Michel Passart, a well-known patron of landscape painting. Poussin's work is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which considers the work to be one of Poussin's greatest landscape painting.[1]
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| Artist | Nicolas Poussin |
| Year | 1658 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 119.1 cm × 182.9 cm (46.9 in × 72.0 in) |
| Location | Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City |
| Accession | 24.45.1 |
References
- "Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun". www.metmuseum.org. Retrieved 2020-06-05.
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