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Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun, 1658
The Harvesters, 1565
Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun, 1658. Nicolas Poussin, Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun (detail), 1658. Oil on canvas. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Fletcher Fund, 1924.1 / 4

Ecologies of Painting

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Jan 1, 2026 – Jan 17, 2027 Upper East Side

European paintings from about 1525 to 1775, including Bruegel’s The Harvesters and Poussin’s Blind Orion, on how artists pictured people’s dependence on, and dominance over, nature.

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