Landscape with Tobias and the Angel (Rosa)

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Landscape with Tobias and the Angel
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Artist Salvator Rosa
Yearcirca 1670
Medium oil painting on canvas
Movement Baroque painting
Landscape painting
History painting
Subject Tobias and the Angel
Dimensions121 cm× 195 cm(48 in× 77 in) [1]
Location Musée des Beaux-Arts, Strasbourg
Accession1890

Landscape with Tobias and the Angel is a large Baroque landscape painting created ca. 1670 by the Southern Italian painter Salvator Rosa. Although principally a landscape painting, it elevates its status to a history painting by including the small figures of Tobias and the Angel, a Christian subject from the Book of Tobit, with the fish from the river Tigris. The painting is now in the Musée des Beaux-Arts of Strasbourg, France. Its inventory number is 182. [2]

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Background

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 now 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  [ fr ] 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]

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References

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  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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