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Healing of Old Tobit

Residenzgalerie, Salzburg

religious

The scene represents an event from the Book of Tobit in the Old Testament. Tobit, who is old and blind, reclines in a chair, while his son Tobias rubs an ointment made of fish's gall into his eyes. Tobias has brought this ointment back from his journey, and it is supposed to restore his father's sight.

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Healing of Old Tobit

About the Artist

Paul Troger

1698 – 1762

Austrian painter, draughtsman and printmaker. Through his fresco-work and his draughtsmanship, which adapt a vast range of Italian influences, as well as his teaching, he is one of the foremost figures of 18th-century Austrian art. After a long study-tour to Italy he became the favourite fresco painter of the Lower Austrian monasteries. In 1754-57 he became the rector of the Academy in Vienna and he influenced many important painters of the next generation, such as Maulbertsch and Mildorfer.

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