Tobias Healing His Father's Blindness — About This Work
Rembrandt van Rijn, c. 1640–45
About the Work
Figures gather around a seated father at the moment his blindness is treated. Rembrandt gives the biblical story the closeness of a domestic encounter, making bodily attention and small gestures central to its telling.
The subject comes from the Book of Tobit, in which Tobias returns and heals his father. The museum discusses Rembrandt's ability to humanise religious narrative through details associated with ordinary life.
Brown pen and touches of white keep the group legible without making the sheet uniformly finished. The surrounding framing lines remain part of the drawing, preserving the boundary within which the closely gathered action unfolds.
The Work
Artist: Rembrandt van Rijn
Title: Tobias Healing His Father's Blindness
Date: c. 1640–45
Medium: Pen and brown ink, touched with white gouache; framing lines in pen and brown ink
Recorded dimensions: 17.7 × 21.1 cm (W × H)
Collection: Cleveland Museum of Art
Accession number: 1969.69
Print & Presentation
Palatine presentation: 30 × 30 cm Classic Frame, portrait.
The complete artwork is reproduced at its recorded scale, subject only to negligible whole-pixel rounding, without enlargement, reduction, cropping or distortion. The surrounding white presentation area accommodates the artwork within the framed presentation and is incorporated into the print rather than added as a separate mount.
Frame finishes: Black, White or Natural.
Paper & glazing: Enhanced Matte + Perspex; or Enhanced Matte + Moth-Eye.
Why Original Scale?
Most art-print shops offer the same image in a choice of Small, Medium and Large sizes. We take a different approach. For each edition, we begin with the recorded dimensions of the original work and reproduce the complete image at that scale, preserving its proportions and avoiding enlargement, reduction, cropping or distortion.
Source: Image: The Cleveland Museum of Art, CC0. Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund. 1969.69.
Care: Display in a dry interior away from prolonged direct sunlight and sources of moisture.
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