The 50 plates / Plate 16 of 50
Plate 16 of 50
Tobit and His Wife
Tobias und sein Weib
Leiden School, 17th Century
Not yet located
The drawing
An elderly couple sits in a modest domestic interior, surrounded by household objects and rendered in fine pen work with broad gray-brown wash.
Becker, 1922
As Felix Becker published it in 1922.
- Attribution
- Leiden School, 17th century
- Title as printed
- Tobias und sein Weib
- Title in English
- Tobit and His Wife
- Medium and size
- Pen and washes, 16.6 × 14 cm
- Inscription
- Inscribed “G. Douw f.” (Becker rejected Dou’s authorship)
- Collection in 1922
- Limburger collection, Leipzig
Today
Modern cataloguing and the drawing’s whereabouts, as far as they are known.
- Status
- Not yet located
- Where is it now?
- Not yet located. No post-Becker museum or auction record has been securely identified with this drawing.
- Attribution today
- No modern attribution securely connected to Becker’s drawing was located. The sheet is inscribed “G. Douw f.” (Becker’s reading), but Becker rejected it as an original Dou and described it as a copy after a lost Rembrandt painting; the inscription is not proof of authorship.
The sheet in this copy
Sources
- Felix Becker, Handzeichnungen alter Meister in Privatsammlungen (Leipzig, 1922), plate 16.
- No later museum or auction record has been securely identified with this drawing so far.