Landscape with Tobias and the Angel (Rosa)

Landscape with Tobias and the Angel is a large Baroque landscape painting by the Southern Italian painter Salvator Rosa. It includes a Christian theme from the Book of Tobit: Tobias and the archangel Raphael with the fish from the river Tigris. The painting is on display in the Musée des Beaux-Arts of Strasbourg, France. Its inventory number is 182.[2]

Landscape with Tobias and the Angel
ArtistSalvator Rosa
Yearcirca 1670
Mediumoil painting on canvas
MovementBaroque painting
Landscape painting
History painting
SubjectTobias and the Angel
Dimensions121 cm × 195 cm (48 in × 77 in)[1]
LocationMusée des Beaux-Arts, Strasbourg
Accession1890

Landscape with Tobias and the Angel was painted in Rome, after the artist's 1662 journey to Venice. It was the first of a series of increasingly small and austere depictions of the subject. The large Strasbourg painting (of which three replicas exist, one of which is kept in the National Gallery, and another in the Wadsworth Atheneum) has been much praised for its expressiveness and its virtuosity since the 18th century. It was bought by Wilhelm von Bode in London in 1890; its previous history can be traced back to 1777, when it was bought at a Parisian auction by Louis-Antoine de Rohan-Chabot of the House of Rohan-Chabot.[1][3]

The depicted landscape is imaginary but probably inspired by the Phlegraean Fields of Rosa's Neapolitan home province, although some art historians have interpreted it as the Tiber Valley near Monte Soratte.[1]

References
  1. Roy, Alain (June 2017). De Giotto à Goya. Peintures italiennes et espagnoles du musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg. Musées de la ville de Strasbourg. pp. 206–207. ISBN 978-2-35125-151-5.
  2. Jacquot, Dominique (2006). Le musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg. Cinq siècles de peinture. Strasbourg: Musées de Strasbourg. pp. 160–161. ISBN 2-901833-78-0.
  3. "Salvator Rosa, Tobias and the Angel". Dorotheum. 2016. Retrieved 12 December 2020.
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