Flemish school. Late 16th century. Jan Brueghel Circle (Brussels, 1568 - Antwerp, 1625) "Mary Magdalene" and "The Miracle of Tobias" Pair of oil paintings on copper. 50 x 65.5 cm each. As the Curator of Dutch and Flemish Old Master Paintings, Dr. Angela Jeger, told us, the guinea pigs that appear in the lower margin of our copper "Mary Magdalene", are “a motif often used by Jan Brueghel I and his son Jan Brueghel II”. We can see it, among other pieces, in “The Garden of Eden with the Fall of Men (Genesis 2-3)” after Brueghel I, signed and dated on 1613 (https://rkd.nl/explore/images/58128); or in “Landscape with the entry into Noah's ark (Gen. 6-8)”, after Brueghel II, signed and dated on 1625 (https://rkd.nl/explore/images/225520). The first painting depicts Mary Magdalene praying and penitent; and, and the second shows the meeting and miracle of Tobias and the Angel. According to the biblical story, Tobias cured his father's blindness with the gall of a fish and by following the indication of the Archangel Raphael's instructions. In this scene, Tobías, a beardless young man, walks with the fish in his hand, next to the Archangel Saint Raphael.