Tobias Healing His Father's Blindness — Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606–1669) | DiscoverArt

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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FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG

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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