id: 144844 accession number: 1969.69 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1969.69 updated: 2024-10-04 11:02:54.605000 Tobias Healing His Father's Blindness, c. 1640–45. Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606–1669). Pen and brown ink, touched with white gouache; framing lines in pen and brown ink; sheet: 21.1 x 17.7 cm (8 5/16 x 6 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1969.69 title: Tobias Healing His Father's Blindness title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1640–45 creation date earliest: 1640 creation date latest: 1645 current location: creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: Netherlands technique: Pen and brown ink, touched with white gouache; framing lines in pen and brown ink department: Drawings collection: DR - Dutch type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606–1669) - artist --- measurements: Sheet: 21.1 x 17.7 cm (8 5/16 x 6 15/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: description: beige(1) laid paper watermarks: inscriptions: inscription: verso, upper center, in graphite: -13 [crossed out]; upper right, in black chalk: rembrant; upper right, in brown ink: D; upper center, in brown ink: [15-50?] / Tobias; upper left, in brown ink: 9 [sideways]; lower left, in brown ink: [illegible, cropped]; lower left, in brown ink: No 2910; lower left, in brown ink: Rembrandt; lower right, in brown ink: -d[l?]-13 [upside down] translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review: 1969 opening date: 1970-01-27T05:00:00 Year in Review: 1969. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 27-February 22, 1970). title: Dutch Art and Life in the Seventeenth Century opening date: 1973-07-10T04:00:00 Dutch Art and Life in the Seventeenth Century. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 10-September 2, 1973). title: Seventeenth Century Dutch Drawings from American Collections opening date: 1977-01-28T05:00:00 Seventeenth Century Dutch Drawings from American Collections. National Gallery of Art, Landover, MD (organizer) (January 28-March 13, 1977); Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO (April 1-May 15, 1977); Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX (June 1-July 15, 1977). title: Italian Drawings with von Hirsh Acquisitions opening date: 1978-09-15T04:00:00 Italian Drawings with von Hirsh Acquisitions. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (September 15-December 4, 1978). title: Seventeenth Century Netherlandish Graphics opening date: 1982-04-27T04:00:00 Seventeenth Century Netherlandish Graphics. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 27-August 1, 1982). title: National Schools of Style opening date: 1983-06-14T04:00:00 National Schools of Style. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 14-September 18, 1983). title: Netherlandish Drawings from the Permanent Collection opening date: 1989-10-10T04:00:00 Netherlandish Drawings from the Permanent Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 10-December 31, 1989). title: Rembrandt: The Master and His Workshop opening date: 1991-09-12T04:00:00 Rembrandt: The Master and His Workshop. Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, 14195 Berlin, Germany (organizer) (co-organizer) (September 12-November 10, 1991); Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands (co-organizer) (December 4, 1991-March 1, 1992). title: Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2000-08-27T00:00:00 Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 17, 2000); The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY (May 23-August 19, 2001); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (October 14, 2001-January 6, 2002). title: Rembrandt's Journey: Painter, Draftsman, Etcher opening date: 2004-02-14T00:00:00 Rembrandt's Journey: Painter, Draftsman, Etcher. The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (February 14-May 9, 2004). title: Rembrandt in America opening date: 2011-10-30T00:00:00 Rembrandt in America. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (February 19-May 28, 2012). title: Treasures on Paper from the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2014-03-09T00:00:00 Treasures on Paper from the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 9-June 8, 2014). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Catalogue descriptive des dessins de maitres anciens expoose a l’ecole des beaux-arts. L’Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1879.', 'opening_date': None} * {'description': 'Exposition d’oevures de Rembrandt, dessins et gravures. Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, 1908.', 'opening_date': '1908-01-01T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE Ignace-Joseph de Claussin, Paris and London, 1766-1844 (Lugt 485, not stamped); his sale, Batignolles, Paris, 2 December 1844, lot 53 ("Tobie recouvrant la vue") to Van Os. date: ?-1844 footnotes: *
An exhibition catalogue from 1879 erroneously listed this drawing as once belonging to the Narcisse Revil collection, a mistake that was been repeated in the subsequent literature as late as 1991 but here resolved. 
citations: George Jacob Johan van Os, Paris and Amsterdam, 1782-1861; his sale, Roussel et Defer, Paris, 20-22 January, 1851, lot 179 ("Tobie recouvrant la vue") date: 1844-1851 footnotes: citations: Collection Defer-Dumesnil, Pierre Defer (1798-1870) and Henri Dumesnil (1823-1898), Paris (Lugt 739); his sale, Drouot, Paris, 10-12 May, 1900, lot 84) to Reinach date: ?-1900 footnotes: citations: Joseph Reinach, Paris, 1856-1921. date: 1900-? footnotes: citations: by descent to Madame Pierre Goujon, daughter of Joseph Reinach, Paris date: footnotes: citations: with Wildenstein & Co., Inc., New York date: footnotes: citations: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1969- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Dutuit, Eugène. Tableaux et dessins de Rembrandt; catalogue historique et descriptif. Paris: A. Lévy, 1885. page number: p. 104 as "Tobie recouvrant la vue" (under Chevalier de Claussin) url: Hofstede de Groot, C. Die Urkunden über Rembrandt (1575-1721). Haag: M. Nijhoff, 1906. page number: p. 182, no. 815 url: Greeff, R. Rembrandts Darstellungen der Tobiasheilung; nebst Beiträgen zur Geschichte des Starstichs; eine kulturhistorische Studie. Stuttgart: F. Enke, 1907. page number: pp. 54-56, no. 3, pl. VI url: Hofstede de Groot, C. and F. Lippmann. Original Drawings by Rembrandt Harmensz Van Rijn: Reproduced in the Colours of the Originals by Emrik & Binger at Haarlem. 1900-1911. page number: fourth series, part 2, no. 55 url: Bredt, Ernst Wilhelm. Rembrandts Erzahlungen: mit etwa 70 Abbildungen eingeleitet und gewahlt. Munchen: H. Schmidt, 1918. page number: pp. 76, 89 url: Kruse, John, and Carl Neumann. Die Zeichnungen Rembrandts und seiner Schule im National-Museum zu Stockholm. Haag: M. Nijhoff, 1920. page number: p. 60, fig. 69 url: Bredt, Ernst Wilhelm. Rembrandt-Bibel: vier Teile in einem Band gebunden, mit 240 Abbildungen und zwanzig Gravüren. München: Schmidt, 1921. page number: Vol 1, p. 159 (2nd ed, 1927, vol. 1, p. 178) url: Valentiner, Wilhelm Reinhold. Die Handzeichnungen Rembrandts. New York: E. Weyhe, 1925-. page number: Vol. 1, pp. 252, 271 (repr.), 479, no. 252 url: Van Dyke, John Charles. The Rembrandt Drawings and Etchings, With Critical Reassignments to Pupils and Followers. New York, London: C. Scribner, 1927. page number: no. 149 (as unknown pupil F), pl. XXXVIII url: Benesch, Otto. Rembrandt, Werk und Forschung: von Otto Benesch. Wien: Gilhofer u. Ranschburg, 1934-35. page number: pp. 35-36 url: Benesch. Otto. The Drawings of Rembrandt. [A Critical and Chronological Catalogue]. London: Phaidon Press, 1954. page number: Vol. 3, p, 156, no. 547, fig. 677 url: Held, Julius S. Rembrandt and the Book of Tobit. [Northampton, Mass.]: Gehenna Press, 1964. page number: p. 16, pl. 24 (reprinted in Held 1996, p. 129, pl. 26) url: Slive, Seymour. Drawings of Rembrandt. New York: Dover Publications, 1965. page number: Vol. 2, no. 501 url: Tümpel, Christian, and Astrid Tümpel. Rembrandt legt die Bibel aus. Zeichn. u. Radierungen aus d. Kupferstichkabinett d. Staatl. Museen Preuss. Kulturbesitz, Berlin. Berlin: Hessling, 1970. page number: no. 33 url: Benesch, Otto, and Eva Benesch. The Drawings of Rembrandt. London: Phaidon Press, 1973. page number: Vol 3, p. 150, no. 547. fig 715 url: Robinson, Franklin Westcott. Seventeenth Century Dutch Drawings from American Collections. International Exhibits Foundation, 1977. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 34, pp. 38-39, no. 34; frontispiece url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 158 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n178 Schatborn, Peter, "Ben Broos, Rembrandt en tekenaars uit zijn omgeving, Oude tekeningen in het bezit van de Gemeentemusea van Amsterdam waaronder de collectie Fodor [review]. Oud Holland 96 (1982): pp. 251-58. page number: p. 254, fig. 2 url: Wetering, Ernst Van De, J. Bruyn, J., C. J. van Nes, and Murray Pearson. A corpus of Rembrandt paintings. The Hague: M. Nijhoff Publishers, 1982. page number: Vol. 3, p. 555; Vol. 5, pp. 216-217, fig. 161 url: Bevers, Holm, Peter Schatborn, and Barbara Welzel. Rembrandt, the Master & His Workshop: Drawings & Etchings. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991. page number: pp. 70-72, no. 18 url: Tümpel, Christian. Het Oude Testament in de schilderkunst van de Gouden Eeuw. Zwolle: Waanders, 1991. page number: p. 121, n. 81 url: Liedtke, Walter A., von Sonnenburg Hubertus, et al. Rembrandt/Not Rembrandt in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Aspects of Connoisseurship. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1995. page number: p. 167, fig. 87. url: Graff, Jan. Drawings by Rembrandt and other 17th Century Dutch Artists in the Department of Prints and Drawings. Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, 1996. page number: pp. 34-35, fig. 10. url: Schama, Simon. Rembrandt's Eyes. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. page number: pp. 425-28 (repr.) url: Cleveland Museum of Art, Diane DeGrazia, and Carter E. Foster. Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in association with Rizzoli International Publications, New York, 2000. page number: Mentioned: no. 67, pp. 166-67, p. 293; Reproduced: 167 url: Kozieł, Andrzej, and Michael Lukas Leopold Willmann. Rysunki Michaela Willmanna (1630-1706). Wrocław: Wydawn. Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego, 2000. page number: p. 72, fig. 19 url: Rosand, David. Drawing Acts: Studies in Graphic Expression and Representation. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2002. page number: pp. 248-251, fig. 238 url: Ackley, Clifford S., Ronni Baer, Tom Rassieur, and William W. Robinson. Rembrandt's Journey: Painter, Draftsman, Etcher. 2003. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: cat. no. 133, p. 202 url: Schwartz, Gary. The Rembrandt Book. New York: Abrams, 2006. page number: p. 360, fig. 638 url: Taylor, Michael. Rembrandt's Nose: Of Flesh & Spirit in the Master's Portraits. New York: Distributed Art Publishers, 2007. page number: p. 77, fig. 25 (French edition 2006, p. 52, fig. 25) url: De Witt, David, Agnes Etherington Art Centre. The Bader Collection: Dutch and Flemish Paintings. Kingston, Ont: Agnes Etherington Art Centre, 2008. page number: p. 180, fig. 108a url: Slive, Seymour. Rembrandt Drawings. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2009. page number: p. 211, fig. 15.20 url: Petherbridge, Deanna. The Primacy of Drawing: Histories and Theories of Practice. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010. page number: p. 109, fig. 65 url: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin--Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Holm Bevers, Georg Josef Dietz, and Antje Penz. Zeichnungen der Rembrandtschule im Berliner Kupferstichkabinett: kritischer Katalog. Dresden : Sandstein Verlag ; Berlin : Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, [2018] page number: Reproduced and mentioned: pp. 229-230 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1969.69/1969.69_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1969.69/1969.69_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1969.69/1969.69_full.tif