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Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun, Nicolas Poussin, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Blind Orion Searching for the Rising SunNicolas Poussin (1594–1665) · 1658The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Public domain (The Met Open Access, CC0) · the museum’s record

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Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun

Nicolas Poussin, 1594–1665, painted 1658

Held by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and released as Public domain (The Met Open Access, CC0). It is here to paint after: give us your own line and the painters take its brushwork, its palette and its light, and none of its subject.

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The credit: Every painting made after it carries “after Nicolas Poussin (1594–1665), Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun, The Metropolitan Museum of Art” on its plaque, and on the share page.
The licence: Public domain (The Met Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it. The credit travels with it everywhere we show it, and it is never enlarged.

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