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The Healing of Tobit
About the Artwork
This scene is the moving conclusion of the story of Tobias, the young man at the right. It addresses the themes of family devotion and trust. Tobias’s father sent him on a long journey to retrieve family money. The angel Raphael appeared as a relative, offering the traveler protection against such things as an attack by a huge fish, whose organs Tobias took on Raphael’s advice. Upon his return home, Tobias discovers his father has gone blind, and Raphael advises him to place the fish’s gallbladder on his father’s eyes to cure him. Strozzi depicts the miraculous cure and the moment in which Raphael reveals that he is an angel.
Provenance
Angelo Costa, Genoa (by 1955); (Harari & Johns, London, and Galerie Sanct Lucas, Vienna), sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1993.
Exhibition history
Bernardo Strozzi: Genova 1581/82-Venezia 1644. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD (September 10-November 26, 1995).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Bernardo Strozzi (Italian, 1581?-1644)
- Date
- c. 1625
- Medium
- oil on wood
- Dimensions
- Framed: 57.2 x 80 x 10.2 cm (22 1/2 x 31 1/2 x 4 in.); Unframed: 42.7 x 65.5 cm (16 13/16 x 25 13/16 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- Painting
- Department
- European Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- John L. Severance Fund and Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
- Accession no.
- 1993.5
More by Bernardo Strozzi in museum collections
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