Tobias and the Angel is an oil painting on panel of
c. 1465–1470 by the Italian artists
Antonio and
Piero del Pollaiuolo, in the
Galleria Sabauda in
Turin. It was probably the first in a series of Florentine paintings of
Tobias and the Angel with similar features, especially a wide landscape background, a small fluffy white dog, and a very expensively dressed, and very young, figure of Tobias.[1]
The painting was mentioned by
Giorgio Vasari as hanging on a pillar in the church of
Orsanmichele in
Florence, though he erroneously described it as being painted on canvas. Rediscovered in the Palazzo Tolomei on via Ginori in Florence by
Gaetano Milanesi, it was acquired by Baron Hector de Garriod in 1865 for its present owner.[2]
References
^Davies, Martin, The Earlier Italian Schools, p. 556, National Gallery Catalogues, 1961, reprinted 1986,
ISBN0901791296
^Aldo Galli, I Pollaiolo, Galleria delle arti series, no. 7, 5 Continents Editions, Milan 2005, pp. 24 and 36.