id: 162193 accession number: 2002.10 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2002.10 updated: 2019-11-18 12:12:25.225000 The Blindness of Tobit: The Large Plate, 1651. Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606-1669). Etching and drypoint; sheet: 16.3 x 13.2 cm (6 7/16 x 5 3/16 in.); platemark: 15.8 x 12.9 cm (6 1/4 x 5 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund 2002.10 title: The Blindness of Tobit: The Large Plate title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1651 creation date earliest: 1651 creation date latest: 1651 current location: creditline: Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund copyright: --- culture: Netherlands, 17th century technique: etching and drypoint department: Prints collection: PR - Etching type: Print find spot: catalogue raisonne: White-Boon 42, Bartsch 42 --- CREATORS * Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606-1669) - artist --- measurements: Sheet: 16.3 x 13.2 cm (6 7/16 x 5 3/16 in.); Platemark: 15.8 x 12.9 cm (6 1/4 x 5 1/16 in.) state of the work: I/II edition of the work: support materials: description: laid paper watermarks: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS 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 (organizer) (March 9-June 8, 2014). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * CMA, "Treasures on Paper from the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art" (Mar. 9, 2014-Jun. 8, 2014)
The Cleveland Museum of Art (5/31/2015 - 10/11/2015); "Monotypes: Painterly Prints" --- PROVENANCE Earl of Aylesford (Lugt 58); John Heywood Hawkins (Lugt 3022); Duke of Buccleuch (Lugt 402); [sale London, Christie's, 19-22 April 1887 lot 1777, bought by Danlos, Paris]; Alfred Strölin; [sale Klipstein & Kornfeld, Bern, 7 June 1961, lot #20 bought by C.G. Boerner]; Private Collection, Germany, 1961-91; Joseph Ritman, Amsterdam; [sale Artemis and Sotheby's, no. 19, New York, 1995] date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: Having sent Tobias to collect a debt, a blind Tobit knocks over his wife’s spinning wheel and gropes for the door in his excitement to see his long-absent son. Rembrandt selectively inked and wiped the plate of this beautiful impression to enhance the scene’s meaning. The dark ink left behind the figure accentuates Tobit’s isolation and makes his beard-the only area of the print without any ink-seem even brighter, dramatizing the father’s anguished expression. Tobit’s shadow is cast by the firelight onto the wall to the far left of the doorway, symbolizing how far he has strayed from his goal and the poignancy of his condition. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Watkins, Catherine Bailey. Rembrandt's 1654 Life of Christ Prints: Experimentation, Tradition, and the Question of Series. 2011. page number: Reproduced: P. 2015, fig. 84 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2002.10/2002.10_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2002.10/2002.10_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2002.10/2002.10_full.tif