Lot 288
Alessandro Magnasco (1667-1749)
Tobias and the Angel, brush and wash
Hammer Price: £3,000
Description
Alessandro Magnasco (1667-1749)
Tobias and the Angel
Brush and reddish-brown wash over traces of black chalk, heightened with white, on laid paper with indistinct watermark, ruled ink borderline, sheet 202 x 132 mm (8 x 5 1/4 in), upper corners restored (framed: 39 x 31 cm)
Provenance:
Professor David Davies (1937-2022), a specialist in Spanish painting, in particular in the works of Velázquez and El Greco;
Thence by descent to the present owners
⁂ Magnasco produced several variant studies of Tobias and the Angel, with very close comparable drawings held both in the Uffizi and the Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt.
The present drawing shows a scene from the biblical story about the blind and devout merchant Tobit, who sent his son Tobias to collect a debt in Media. God sent the Archangel Raphael, the winged figure in the present drawing, to guide him and his dog. Popular from the late fifteenth century on amid growing devotion to Saint Raphael, the story culminates with Tobias returning home and curing his father’s blindness with the organs of a miraculous fish.
Description
Alessandro Magnasco (1667-1749)
Tobias and the Angel
Brush and reddish-brown wash over traces of black chalk, heightened with white, on laid paper with indistinct watermark, ruled ink borderline, sheet 202 x 132 mm (8 x 5 1/4 in), upper corners restored (framed: 39 x 31 cm)
Provenance:
Professor David Davies (1937-2022), a specialist in Spanish painting, in particular in the works of Velázquez and El Greco;
Thence by descent to the present owners
⁂ Magnasco produced several variant studies of Tobias and the Angel, with very close comparable drawings held both in the Uffizi and the Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt.
The present drawing shows a scene from the biblical story about the blind and devout merchant Tobit, who sent his son Tobias to collect a debt in Media. God sent the Archangel Raphael, the winged figure in the present drawing, to guide him and his dog. Popular from the late fifteenth century on amid growing devotion to Saint Raphael, the story culminates with Tobias returning home and curing his father’s blindness with the organs of a miraculous fish.
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