Abstract

The painting shows an episode taken from the Apocryphal book of Tobit, chapter 10, verses 1–7, in which the blind Tobit and his wife Anna anxiously await the return of their son Tobias. The latter, accompanied by the archangel Raphael, who had been sent by God, had gone to Rages in Media to fetch money which Tobit had once entrusted for safe keeping to a certain Gabael, a member of the family. For various reasons, Tobias has been away much longer than agreed.

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