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Tobit and Anna with the Kid
Tobit’s blindness has condemned him and his wife to a life of grinding poverty: his once expensive tabard is
torn and tattered. When Anna comes home with a kid, a reward for her hard work, Tobit thinks she has stolen
it. In desperation, he prays God to grant him a quick death. Anna looks on in bewilderment.
Publisher
- Rijksmuseum
Subject
- http://iconclass.org/71T37
Type of item
- painting
- Art of painting
Medium
- Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt, the Rijksmuseum-Stichting, the Prins Bernhard Fonds and an additional government funding
Publisher
- Rijksmuseum
Subject
- http://iconclass.org/71T37
Type of item
- painting
- Art of painting
Medium
- Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt, the Rijksmuseum-Stichting, the Prins Bernhard Fonds and an additional government funding
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Rights
- Public Domain
- Publiek Domein
Creation date
- 1626
- 1626
Place-Time
- second quarter 17th century
Provenance
- ...; ? sale, Pieter van Buytene (Oude Koornmarkt, Delft), sold on the premises (A. de Groot), 29 October 1748, no. 91 ('De blinde Tobias met zyn Vrouw, door Rembrand'), fl. 28;{Hoet 1752, II, p. 231, no. 91.} ...; ? sale, Amsterdam (H. de Leth), 17 April 1759 sqq., no. 103 ('Tobias zyn Huisvrouw bestraffende, door Rembrand van Rhyn'), fl. 27, to Yver;{Copy EBNP.} ...; ? sale, Jeanne-Louise-Henriette Campan (1752-1822, Paris and Nantes), Paris (A. Coquille et al.), 10 March 1823, no. 76 ('Tobie aveugle et Anne, sa femme. "Elle allait tous les jours faire de la toile, et apportait, du travail de ses mains ce qu'elle pouvait gagner pour vivre. Il arriva donc qu'ayant recu un jour un chevreau, elle l'apporta à la maison, et son mari l'ayant entendu crier, dit à sa femme: Prenez garde que ce chevreau n'ait été dérobé. Alors sa femme lui répondit en colère: il est aisé de voir combien toutes vos espérances étaient vaines, et à quoi se sont terminées toutes vos aumônes (L. de Tobie, ch. II, v. 19)". Il paraît que Rembrandt affectionnait beaucoup les scènes de la vie de Tobie; il en a tiré trois sujets de ses meilleurs Tableaux. Celui-ci, plein d'expression, et d'une belle couleur, est terminé comme ceux de ses premiers temps; il porte la date 1627. Rembrandt n'avait que 24 ans'.); ...; collection Dmitry Shchukin (1855-1932), Moscow, shortly after 1905;{Bruyn et al. I, 1982, p. 87.}; ...; dealer J. Goudstikker, Amsterdam, 1917;{Bruyn et al. I, 1982, p. 87.} ...; collection Baron Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza (1875-1947), Schloss Rohoncz, Lugano, 1937;{Coll. cat. Thyssen-Bornemisza 1937, pp. 125-26, no. 343.} his daughter, Gabrielle W.H.M. Baroness Bentinck, née Thyssen-Bornemisza (1915-), Paris (on loan to the museum 1956-79, SK-C-1448); from whom, fl. 3,000,000, to the museum, with support from the Vereniging Rembrandt, the Rijksmuseum Stichting and the State of the Netherlands, 1979
Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.5241
- SK-A-4717
Extent
- height 39.5 cm
- width 30 cm
Format
- panel
- oil paint (paint)
Language
- nl
Is part of
- collection: paintings
- collectie: schilderijen
Year
- 1626
Providing country
- Netherlands
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2014-05-27T20:16:30.791Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2018-03-17T14:38:09.360Z