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The Healing of Tobit

The Healing of Tobit

c. 1625
(Italian, 1581?-1644)
Framed: 57.2 x 80 x 10.2 cm (22 1/2 x 31 1/2 x 4 in.); Unframed: 42.7 x 65.5 cm (16 13/16 x 25 13/16 in.)
Location: not on view

Description

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.
  • Angelo Costa, Genoa (by 1955);
    (Harari & Johns, London, and Galerie Sanct Lucas, Vienna), sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1993.
  • Chong, Alan. "Bernardo Strozzi: The Healing of Tobit." The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art LXXX, no. 4 (April, 1993):154-157. Reproduced: p. 155, fig. 1, infra-red p. 156
    "1993 Annual Report." The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art LXXXI, no. 6 (June, 1994): 146-167. Reproduced: p. 163
    Spicer, Joaneath, Peter M. Lukehart, and Martha Lucy. Bernardo Strozzi: Master Painter of the Italian Baroque (1581/2-1644). Baltimore, MD: Walters Art Gallery, 1995. Reproduced: p. 30
    Mortari, Luisa. Bernardo Strozzi. Roma, Italy: De Luca, 1995. Reproduced: p. 179, pl. 442
  • Bernardo Strozzi: Genova 1581/82-Venezia 1644. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD (September 10-November 26, 1995).
    Bernardo Strozzi. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, MD (September 8 - November 30, 1995).
  • {{cite web|title=The Healing of Tobit|url=false|author=Bernardo Strozzi|year=c. 1625|access-date=21 March 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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