Mattia Preti
Tobias Healing His Father's Blindness

ArtistItalian (Neapolitan), 1613–1699
CultureItalian
Titles
  • Tobias Healing His Father's Blindness
DateLate 1670s
PlaceItaly
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensionsimage: 41 × 51 in. (104.1 × 129.5 cm)

Credit LineSarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, Houston
Object numberBF.1984.25
Not on view

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Provenance[Silvano Lodi, Campione d'Italia, Italy]; [Piero Corsini Gallery, New York]; purchased by the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, 1984.
Exhibition History“Masterpieces of European Painting from the 15th to 20th Centuries from
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Sarah Campbell Baffer Foundation," The Museum of Art, Ehime, Matsuyama, Japan, April 13–May 30, 1999; Chiba Prefectural Art Museum, Japan, June 5–July 11, 1999; Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Tsu, Japan, July 17–August 22, 1999; Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan, August 27–October 3, 1999.

"Picturing the Senses in European Art," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, April 10–July 17, 2011.

"A Brush with Passion: Mattia Preti (1613-1699). Paintings from North American Collections in Honor of the 400th Anniversary of His Birth," Muscarelle Museum of Art at The College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, February 6–April 14, 2013.

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