
Landscape with Tobias and Raphael is a 1639-40 painting byClaude Lorrain, one of a series of paintings commissioned from the artist for thePalacio del Buen Retiro and now in thePrado Museum in Madrid.[1]
It is one of a number of Claude'slandscape paintings that is promoted to a more prestigioushistory painting by the addition of small figures from a narrative subject. These are either from classical mythology or religion, the latter rather more popular with Spanish collectors. In this case the standard subject ofTobias and the Angel from theBook of Tobit has been chosen, which traditionally has a setting in a wide landscape.
Instructed by theArchangel Raphael, Tobias is gutting the enormous fish he has caught in theRiver Tigris; he will make magical use of these.
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