Title: The Angel Departing from the Family of Tobias 
Artist: _ Rembrandt
Category: Old Master
Medium: Etching
Framed: Yes
Height: 5 15/16"
Width: 4 1/16"

c. 1641 An impression of Bartsch’s fourth and final state, Usticke’s fifth state of seven, printed after C.H. Watelet's inscription of 1747 was removed from the plate but before the coarse rebiting of the entire plate. Printed by Pierre Francois Basan and issued in the Basan Recueil circa 1790. Signed and dated in the plate lower center Rembrandt f. 1641.

Back home after his journey to Media and marriage to Sarah, Tobias used the remaining entrails of the fish he had caught and saved at the instruction of the angel Raphael to cure his father’s blindness. At that point Raphael revealed himself an archangel and took leave of the family. The old Tobit praised God for his mercy (Tobit 12:16-22).

Rembrandt made frequent use of themes from the book of Tobit, especially in his drawings.