Tobias and the Angel

Cleveland Museum of Art

Tobias and the Angel

Francesco GuardiLinkedCulture matchlcp-64d9ac2ab41a

Date
1750s
Medium
oil on canvas
Culture
Italy, 18th century
Department
European Painting and Sculpture
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
129803

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This series of paintings predominantly tells the Old Testament story of Abraham and Isaac, and each of the canvases treats the interaction of humans and angels. In three works, angels appear to Abraham. However, the narrative of Tobias and the Angel comes from an entirely different book of the Bible. The blind Tobit sends his son Tobias off to collect a sum of money in the distant town of Media, with the angel Raphael accompanying him in disguise as a human. This particular work depicts Raphael overseeing Tobias catching a fish, which would later be used to cure his father's blindness.

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Credit line
Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
Provenance
Until 1800: Possibly Federigo Giovanelli, Venice | ?: Baroness Valerie Groedel, Budapest | By 1933?: (Neumann Gallery, Vienna) | 1952: Francesco Pospisil, Venice, sold through Alessandro Brass to the Cleveland Museum of Art | 1952-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio

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