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Rembrandt van Rijn

Tobias Healing His Father's Blindness

c. 1640–45
Pen and brown ink, touched with white gouache; framing lines in pen and brown ink

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The seated figure in this drawing is receiving cataract surgery on his left eye, a procedure pioneered in Amsterdam in 1635 by Dr. Job Janszoon van Meekren.

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