Tobias Healing His Father's Blindness

작가	Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606–1669)
제작 시기	c. 1640–45
분류	Drawing
재료·기법	Pen and brown ink, touched with white gouache; framing lines in pen and brown ink
문화권	Netherlands
소장 부서	Drawings
이용 조건	퍼블릭 도메인 (CC0) — 수업·인쇄에 자유롭게 사용 가능

작품 설명

This drawing is a prime example of the Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn's innovative approach to biblical narrative, in which he often humanized traditional pictorial formulas through the inclusion of observed details from everyday life. It depicts the climactic moment of the Book of Tobit, an apocryphal book of the Old Testament, in which, instructed by the archangel Raphael, Tobias heals his father Tobit's blindness by rubbing his eyes with fish gall. With spontaneity, a deft hand, and deceptive simplicity in his mark-making, Rembrandt depicts an intimate family scene including the archangel, Tobias, Hannah, and Sarah around a seated Tobit. Hannah’s spectacles, a unique detail among images of the scene created by Rembrandt and his circle, further thematizes sight. Rembrandt’s most innovative addition to the story centers on Tobias, who concentrates intensely to use a scalpel, rather than fish gall, to perform a cataract operation on his father’s left eye. Cataract surgery was a new procedure pioneered in Amsterdam in 1635 by Dr. Job Janszoon van Meekren, and Rembrandt may have witnessed the doctor perform it.

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이 작품은 퍼블릭 도메인이라 수업 자료로 자유롭게 내려받아 인쇄하거나 화면에 띄워 쓸 수 있습니다. Rembrandt van Rijn의 표현 방식을 관찰하고 따라 그려 보거나, Pen and brown ink, touched with white gouache; framing lines in pen and brown ink 기법에 대해 이야기 나누는 감상 수업에 활용할 수 있습니다.

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