Rembrandt van Rijn - Tobias Cured With His Son 1636
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Tobias Cured With His Son 1636
39x47cm oil/canvas
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
The image is only being used for informational and educational purposes
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From Staatsgalerie Stuttgart:
Sent by his father to recover an old debt, Tobias sets out - joined by the Archangel Raphael - for the city of Rages in Media. At the River Tigris Tobias follows the angel's instructions and catches a fish whose heart, gall and liver he preserved as a remedy. After his return home, Tobias applies the gall to his father's eyes, and the blind Tobit recovers his eyesight. Rembrandt departs from the tradition by showing Tobias perform a cataract operation on his father, a medical procedure that was not at all uncommon in Rembrandt's day. Nevertheless, the scene is suffused with the miraculous nature of the process. [RK]