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single object

Bartsch: B42-1(2)
New Hollstein Dutch: NHD265-1(2)

The Blindness of Tobit

1651

support: paper
medium: ink

signature and date - b.c. and b.r.

Rembrandt f. 1651

watermark
cartouche and pelican

The Apocryphal book of Tobit served as a source of inspiration to Rembrandt and his pupils on many occasions. Here we see the moment at which the old, blind Tobit hears his long expected son Tobias returning and hurries to the door.

Acquired from Jan Veth, 1915.