Tobias and the Angel curing Tobit of blindness

Details

Simon Hendricksz. van Amersfoort (1550-1699)
Tobias and the Angel curing Tobit of blindness
signed with monogram and dated 'SHendr... fecit 1630' (lower right, under the angel's foot)
oil on panel
24¾ x 18¾ in. (62.8 x 47.6 cm.)
in a George III giltwood swept frame

Literature

Possibly 1851 Inventory, Large Drawing Room, '14 Paintings - £75.0.0'

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For further information on the artist please see the exhibition catalogue Dutch Painting in a New Light: Hendrick ter Brugghen and his contemporaries (Ultrecht and Braunschweig, November 1986 - April 1987).

Lot Essay

We are grateful to Willem van de Watering for confirming the attribution on the basis of photographs and for highlighting that this is only the third fully identified work by the artist, of whom few biogrpahical details are known.

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