# Tobias and the Angel with the Fish [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [DUJARDIN, Karel]() - Date: 1651-1700 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 85 x 65 cm ## Commentary Karel Dujardin's classically styled biblical scenes, produced mostly in his Amsterdam period between 1659 and 1674, betray the influence of the schools of Rome and Bologna in general, and, on occasion, of Annibale Carracci in particular. The Old Testament story of Tobias became popular in seventeenth-century Dutch art, especially in Rembrandt's circle. One of the most commonly treated scenes was that in which the young Tobias, at the behest of his accompanying angel, caught from the River Tigris an enormous fish, whose gall he used to heal his blind father Tobit. ## Related artworks - [A Party of Charlatans in an Italian Landscape]() - [Allegory]() - [Calvary]() - [Cows and Sheep at a Stream]() - [Hagar and Ishmael in the Wilderness]() - [Horseman Holding a Roemer]() - [Italian Comedians]() - [Italian Landscape with a Young Shepherd]() - [Italian Landscape with Elegant Riders and Fishermen]() - [Italian Landscape with Herdsman and a Piebald Horse]() - [Italianate Landscape with Travellers on Horseback]() - [Landscape in the Roman Campagna]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()