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Tobias and the Angel
About the Artwork
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.
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
Exhibition history
Mostra dei Guardi. Palazzo Grassi spa, 30124 Venice, Italy (organizer) (June 5-October 10, 1965). The Allure of La Serenissima: Eighteenth-Century Venetian Art. Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, OK (organizer) (September 9, 2010-January 2, 2011).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Francesco Guardi (Italian, 1712–1793)
- Date
- 1750s
- 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.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- Painting
- Department
- European Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
- Accession no.
- 1952.235.2
More by Francesco Guardi in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00009484
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