Cleveland Museum of Art
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
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
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.
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