Literature

Catalogues raisonnés
HdG 65
Bredius 520
Bauch 30
Gerson 348
Bredius/Gerson 520
Tümpel 28 (expressing doubts)
Corpus V 28
Corpus VI 266
Giltaij 559

Collection catalogues
De verzameling van de Stichting Willem van der Vorm in het Museum Boymans-van Beuningen Rotterdam / Collection of the Willem van der Vorm Foundation at the Boymans-van Beuningen Museum Rotterdam, Rotterdam, 1994, nr. 30

Exhibitions

1956 Rembrandt - Paintings, Nr. 80

Provenance

possibly P. van Buytene, sale Delft, 29 October 1748, no.91
D. Fiers Kappeyne, sale Amsterdam, 25 april 1775, no. 81, to Yver
R. de Saint Victor, sale Paris, Roux, 26 November 1822, no. 68
Sir Frederick Cook, Bt. Visconde de Monserrate, Doughty House, Richmond
Sir Herbert Cook
with D. Katz, Dieren, bought by Van der Vorm 1940
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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

RKD 51478
Museum Boijmans van Beumingen, Rotterdam Accession number VdV 65

Other works by Rembrandt

Rembrandt laughing
c. 1628

Bust of an old man
c. 1630

The adoration of the Magi
c. 1633

A scholar, seated at a table with books
1634

Portrait of a woman
1634