Tobias Healing His Father's Blindness
c. 1640–45
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, touched with white gouache; framing lines in pen and brown ink
- Dimensions
- 21.1 × 17.7 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-190726
This drawing is a prime example of the Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn's innovative approach to biblical narrative, in which he often humanized traditional pictorial formulas through the inclusion of observed details from everyday life. It depicts the climactic moment of the Book of Tobit, an apocryphal book of the Old Testament, in which, instructed by the archangel Raphael, Tobias heals his father Tobit's blindness by rubbing his eyes with fish gall. With spontaneity, a deft hand, and deceptive simplicity in his mark-making, Rembrandt depicts an intimate family scene including the archange…
Provenance
Wade Fund, 1969.69
Registry history
- c. 1640–45 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — drawings
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