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Two small, closely related paintings, Tobit and Anna with the kid, discussed here, and Joseph’s dream examined in the next entry (V 8), raise questions about working and teaching practices in Rembrandt’s workshop. The entry on Joseph’s dream will assess the relationship and the differences between these two paintings and propose an explanation of the genesis of these works based on a putative aspect of workshop practice. The present entry looks first at the question of what Tobit and Anna and the kid would have meant for a 17th-century viewer. Following this, the possible connections between the Berlin painting and a number of drawings of the same subject are considered.
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J. Bauch and D. Eckstein, ‚Woodbiological investigations on panels of Rembrandt paintings”, Wood Science and Technology 15 (1981), pp. 251–263, esp. 254
P. Klein, ‚Hat Rembrandt auf Zuckerkistenholz gemalt?‘, Zuckerhistorische Beiträge aus der Alten und Neuen Welt, Schriften aus dem Zucker-Museum, Heft 25, Berlin 1988, pp. 37–43.
C. Hofstede de Groot, Die Handzeichnungen Rembrandts. Versuch eines beschreibenden und kritischen Katalogs, Haarlem 1906, cat. no. 1549.
P. Schatborn in: Het boek Tobit. Met etsen en tekeningen van Rembrandt en zijn leerlingen. Foreword C. Tümpel, notes to the reader P. Schatborn, Zeist 1975, p. 56, ill. p. 15.
H. Bevers, Rembrandt. Die Zeichnungen im Berliner Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin 2006: Holm Bevers does not accept the drawing as autograph. See the forthcoming publication of the second volume of the Berlin catalogue.
F. Nicolai, Beschreibung der Königlichen Residenzstädte Berlin und Potsdam, Berlin 1769, p. 367. In the third edition, of 1786, II, p. 885, no. 17 the painting is listed as: ‚Tobias und sein Weib mit dem Böcklein, von Rembrand‘.
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Van De Wetering, E. (2011). Rembrandt and pupil — Tobit and Anna with the kid. In: A Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings. Stichting Foundation Rembrandt Research Project, vol 5. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5786-1_12
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