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Blind Homer Led by the Genius of Poetry
View through The Met
Marble, American
Rights: Public Domain
The American Wing, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Purchase Morris K. Jesup Fund and Gift of William Nelson by exchange 1996
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