Abraham de Pape

Tobit and Anna



Abraham de Pape - Tobit and Anna



Abraham de Pape
Tobit and Anna
1658/59
40.7 x 56 cm
Oil on oak
Signed and dated along the right half of the lower edge of the wall-cupboard: A.DE.PAPE.16(58 or 59?)
The National Gallery, London


Literature

Neil MacLaren, revised and expanded by Christopher Brown, The Dutch school, 1600-1900, London, 1991, pp. 305-306, plate 268
Christopher Baker and Tom Henry, The National Gallery complete illustrated catalogue, London, 2001, p. 518


Iconclass

71T74 Old Tobit (and Anna) waiting and worrying about the long absence of their son; sometimes Anna is shown at the spinning-wheel

External links

National Gallery, London Accession number NG1221