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The Healing of Tobit

Bernardo StrozziLinkedCulture matchlcp-a938cd598313

Date: c. 1625
Medium: oil on wood
Culture: Italy, 17th century
Department: European Painting and Sculpture
Institution: Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID: 157158

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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.

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Credit line: John L. Severance Fund and Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
Provenance: Angelo Costa, Genoa (by 1955); | (Harari & Johns, London, and Galerie Sanct Lucas, Vienna), sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1993.