Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun

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.

Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun
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
Accession	24.45.1

The painting's scene was inspired by the 2nd century CE Syrian writer Lucian's retellings and spoofs 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 one of Poussin's greatest landscape paintings.^[1]

See also

• List of paintings by Nicolas Poussin