The hollow eyes of blind Tobit are anointed with fish gall by Tobias. Engraving by S.F. Ravenet, 1767, after R. Earlom after Agostino Carracci.

  • Carracci, Agostino, 1557-1602.
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1767
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21509i
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Bible. Apocrypha. Tobit 11.13. The angel informs Tobias that the liver and heart of the fish will cure demoniac possession, while the gall will cure blindness. The fish had threatened to swallow Tobias (Tobit 6.2), but the writer tells us only that it was "a large fish"

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1767

Physical description

1 print : line engraving ; image 38.6 x 50.1 cm

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Tobias anointing his father's eyes. From the original picture painted by Agostino Caracci in the collection of Mr. Gerard van der Gucht. Size of the picture 7f. 9i. by 8f. 8i. in length. Agostino Caracci pinx.t R. Earlom delin.t S.F. Ravenet sculpsit Bears number: Vol II. No. 17

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Boyer describes the attribution to Agostino Carracci as surprising, but (in the absence of the painting) unverifiable (loc. cit.)

References note

Jean-Claude Boyer, 'Some identifications of paintings in the collection of "le grand Colbert"', The Burlington magazine, April 2014, 156: 212-218, pp. 214-215

Reference

Wellcome Collection 21509i

Reproduction note

After a painting in the collection of Jean-Baptiste Colbert; subsequently belonging to Gerard van der Gucht and lot 51 in his posthumous sale at Christie's in 1777; afterwards to the dealer Richard Clark (1805); subsequently lost (Boyer, loc. cit.)

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