# Tobias Healing his Father [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [FETTI, Domenico]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 66,7 x 85 cm ## Commentary Tobias Healing his Father 1620-23 Oil on canvas, 66,7 x 85 cm The Hermitage, St. Petersburg Several other versions of this painting are known from the artist. The story is recounted in the Book of Tobit. Tobias was sent by his father Tobit to Media to recover a sum of money he had hidden there earlier. Archangel Raphael, sent by God to help Tobit and his family, asked Tobit \(who did not recognize the angel\) whether he may escort his son on his journey and, in company with Tobias' faithful hound, they departed together. They reached the Tigris, where Tobias was attacked by a gigantic fish. The archangel ordered him to capture it and had him remove and conserve its gall, heart and liver. The innards proved to be a medicine which he can use to restore his father's sight. ## Related artworks - [David \(detail\)]() - [David]() - [David with the Head of Goliath]() - [Ecce Homo]() - [Flight to Egypt]() - [Hero and Leander]() - [Margherita Gonzaga Receiving the Model of the Church of St Ursula \(detail\)]() - [Margherita Gonzaga Receiving the Model of the Church of St Ursula]() - [Melancholy \(detail\)]() - [Melancholy]() - [Melancholy]() - [Moses before the Burning Bush]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()