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| Tobit Burying the Dead |
Artist:Andrea di Lione (Italian, Naples 1610–1685 Naples)
Date:1640s
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions:50 1/4 x 68 1/2 in. (127.6 x 174 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Gwynne Andrews Fund, 1989
Accession Number:1989.225
Not on view
The cloaked figure is Tobit, a devout Jew who in defiance of Sennacherib's orders directed the burial of the Jews whom the king had killed outside the walls of Nineveh (Tobit I:17–20). Andrea di Lione was in Rome in the 1640s, where he knew both Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione and Nicolas Poussin, and this work is indebted to both of those artists.
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