English: The subject is taken from the apocryphal Book of Tobit. Tobias was sent by his blind father, the merchant Tobit, to collect a debt.
The fish (Martin Kemp), the dog (David Alan Brown, Curator for paintings of the Italian Renaissance at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. , (Leonardo biographer Charles Nicholl) and Tobias' curl (Charles Nicholl) are possibly attributed to the young Leonardo da Vinci (1452−1519), who was in Verocchio's workshop around 1470 - 1477.
References
NG Web Gallery of Art Martin Kemp: Leonardo. C. H. Beck, München 2008, S. 288 David Alan Brown: Leonardo da Vinci: Origins of a Genius, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1998, S. 51 Charles Nicholl: Leonardo da Vinci – Die Biographie. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2006, S. 122
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