Landscape with Tobias and Raphael
Landscape with Tobias and Raphael is a 1639-40 painting by
Prado Museum in Madrid.[1]
It is one of a number of Claude's landscape paintings that is promoted to a more prestigous history 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 of Tobias and the Angel from the Book of Tobit has been chosen, which traditionally has a setting in a wide landscape.
Instructed by the
River Tigris
; he will make magical use of these.