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Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun
Painting by Nicolas Poussin / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun is a 1658 painting by French artist Nicolas Poussin. Done in oil on canvas, the painting depicts a scene in which the mythological figure Orion — having been blinded — searches for the rising sun.
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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 |
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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 paintings.[1]