Tobias and the Angel
The Cleveland Museum of Art · Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
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Tobias and the Angel

1750s
Francesco Guardi (Italian, 1712–1793) visual detail
ArtistFrancesco Guardi (Italian, 1712–1793)
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Provenance

Public
Until 1800

Possibly Federigo Giovanelli, Venice

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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

Source provenance text

Possibly Federigo Giovanelli, Venice Baroness Valerie Groedel, Budapest (Neumann Gallery, Vienna) Francesco Pospisil, Venice, sold through Alessandro Brass to the Cleveland Museum of Art The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio

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Exhibitions

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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). Venice, Palazzo Grassi, June 5 - October 10, 1965: "Mostra dei Guardi," cat. no. 59, p. 412 (as Francesco) Approved: Trustees' Minutes 6/21/1965 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.

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Sourced Overview Evidence

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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0 observed sales · 0 comparable sales · 5 structured provenance events · 2 structured exhibitions.

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