# The young Tobit healing his father's blindness [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [REMBRANDT Harmenszoon van Rijn]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Brown ink and wash, white body colour, 210 x 177 mm ## Commentary The young Tobit healing his father's blindness c. 1642 Brown ink and wash, white body colour, 210 x 177 mm Museum of Art, Cleveland <a href="\#" onClick="w=window.open \('/database/glossary/note03.html', 'newWin', 'scrollbars=yes,status=no,dependent=yes,screenX=0,screenY=0,width=300,height=400'\);w.opener=this;w.focus\(\);return false">Catalogue number:</a> Benesch 547. This drawing is a study for the painting <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/r/rembrand/15oldtes/11oldtes.html'\)" href="/html/r/rembrand/15oldtes/11oldtes.html">Tobit is Healed by His Son.</a> There is a confusion regarding the names of the father and son. In the Book of Tobit \(a book of scripture that is part of the Catholic and Orthodox biblical canon\) father and son are so close that they even share the same name. Sometimes they are both called Tobias, sometimes the father is called Tobias and the son Tobit and sometimes the other way around. ## Related artworks - [A black drummer and commander mounted on mules; riding in profile]() - [A child being taught to walk]() - [A cottage beneath trees]() - [A girl sleeping]() - [A Man Laughing]() - [A man making water]() - [A Peddler Selling Spectacles \(The Allegory of Sight\)]() - [A Polish Nobleman]() - [A Scholar]() - [A two-humped camel]() - [A woman in Zeeland costume, from the back]() - [A woman in Zeeland costume, from the front]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()