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Arent de Gelder: Edna blesses Tobias and Sara

Arent de Gelder 1645 – 1727

Edna blesses Tobias and Sara

oil on canvas (88 × 112 cm) — c. 1705-1710
Museum Catharijneconvent, Utrecht

Arent de Gelder biography

This work is linked to Tobit 10:12

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Tobias says goodby to Raguel and Edna, the parents of his wife Sara. Raguel gives them one half of his possessions. Edna hopes they once will return, preferably with children of their own.

Now Tobias can finally return to his father, the blind Tobit.

Very modest work by De Gelder.