The Archangel Raphael Guiding Tobias
Artist/Maker
Italian
, Florence
Dateca. 1475
MediumTempera on panel
DimensionsOverall: 21 1/2 in. (54.6 cm)
Frame: 27 1/8 × 27 1/8 × 3 1/2 in. (68.9 × 68.9 × 8.9 cm)
Frame: 27 1/8 × 27 1/8 × 3 1/2 in. (68.9 × 68.9 × 8.9 cm)
Credit LineGift of Baroness de Kerchove
Object number1953.234
Status
Not on viewStylistically, this panel relates to Ghirlandaio and to Filippino Lippi, though its minute execution and extremely high quality suggests the hand of an illustrator. One possible attribution is Gherardo del Fora, especially given the mountains in the background, the fish, and the treatment of the draperies. Instead of the usual semi-naturalistic fish dangling from a string, Tobias carries under his arm a heraldic fish apparently copied from the Pazzi family coat-of-arms suggesting a Pazzi commission.
Exhibition History
Religion, Ritual and Performance in the Renaissance
- Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (August 28, 2012 - June 30, 2013 )
Collections
- European
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early 17th century
ca. 1405
ca. 1649