Tobias and the Angel
1750s
Francesco Guardi
Francesco Guardi (Italian, 1712–1793)
European Painting and Sculpture
Tobias and the Angel, 1750s. Francesco Guardi (Italian, 1712–1793). Oil on canvas; framed: 70.5 x 90.5 x 6.5 cm (27 3/4 x 35 5/8 x 2 9/16 in.); unframed: 56.5 x 75.5 cm (22 1/4 x 29 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund 1952.235.2 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.
- Maker/Artist
- Guardi, Francesco
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Framed: 70.5 x 90.5 x 6.5 cm (27 3/4 x 35 5/8 x 2 9/16 in.); Unframed: 56.5 x 75.5 cm (22 1/4 x 29 3/4 in.)
- Departments
- European Painting and Sculpture
- Accession Number
- 1952.235.2
- Credit Line
- Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
- Exhibitions
- Mostra dei Guardi, The Allure of La Serenissima: Eighteenth-Century Venetian Art, Venice, Palazzo Grassi, June 5 - October 10, 1965: "Mostra dei Guardi," cat. no. 59, p. 412 (as Francesco)<br>Approved: Trustees' Minutes 6/21/1965<br>Oklahoma City Museum of Art (9/9/2010 - 1/2/2011): "The Allure of La Serenissima: Eighteenth-Century Venetian Art" , cat. no. 9, p. 55.
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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