Live Auction 5696The Collection of the Late John Appleby: A Channel Island Treasure House
Attributed to Louis-Joseph Le Lorrain (Paris 1715-1759 St Petersburg)
Lot 36

Attributed to Louis-Joseph Le Lorrain (Paris 1715-1759 St Petersburg)

Tobit burying the dead in defiance of the orders of Sennacherib

Closed4 November 2010

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GBP 4,750

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Attributed to Louis-Joseph Le Lorrain (Paris 1715-1759 St Petersburg)
Tobit burying the dead in defiance of the orders of Sennacherib
oil on panel, unframed
15 x 19½ in. (38.1 x 49.5 cm.)

Specialist note

The present lot depicts a scene in the story of Tobit taken from the Book of Tobit in the Apocrypha. A pious Jew, Tobit provided proper burials for fallen Israelites slain by the Assyrian King Sennacherib according to the precepts of Hebrew law. For his defiance of the King's orders all his property was seized and Tobit was exiled.