Tobit and Anna with the Kid
Also titled Tobit en Anna met het bokje
Rembrandt van Rijn (Leiden, 1606–1669)
1626
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 39.5 cm x width 30 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt, the Rijksmuseum-Stichting, the Prins Bernhard Fonds and an additional government funding
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
About this work
Tobit’s blindness has condemned him and his wife to a life of grinding poverty: his once expensive tabard is torn and tattered. When Anna comes home with a kid, a reward for her hard work, Tobit thinks she has stolen it. In desperation, he prays God to grant him a quick death. Anna looks on in bewilderment.
