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| Keywords: Abraham de Pape 001.jpg NG1221 Bought 1886 Signed and dated on the wall-cupboard A DE PAPE 165 8 or 9 Tobit and Anna were the parents of Tobias who saved his father's sight with the help of the Archangel Raphael Tobit had been reduced to poverty by God as a test Anna supported them with her spinning wheel Book of Tobit 2 11 and 4 21 If the identification of the subject as Tobit and Anna is correct the spinning-wheel is presumably a reference to Anna working for money and the bare cupboard an allusion to their poverty Because of the interior setting the painting was for a long time been interpreted as being a genre scene with an old couple However the subject was identified by comparison with a similar painting by Rembrandt 'Anna and the Blind Tobit' also in the National Gallery's Collection In 17th-century Holland paintings were sometimes protected by curtains and illusionistic representations of them as in the curtain set in front of the scene on the right are not uncommon Oil on oak 40 7 × 56 cm http //www nationalgallery org uk/cgi-bin/WebObjects dll/CollectionPublisher woa/wa/work workNumber ng1221 ca 1658 Creator Abraham de Pape Museum National Gallery London PD-old-100 Abraham de Pape 1658 Paintings of Tobit 1650s paintings in the United Kingdom Dutch Golden Age paintings in the National Gallery London Pape Abraham de 1658 circa 17th-century domestic activities in painting 17th-century religious paintings in the United Kingdom 1658 | ||||
