Tobias and Three Archangels
- Date
- 1471
- Medium
- Tempera, oil (?), gold, and silver on panel
- Dimensions
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Framed: 96 3/8 x 92 x 8 1/2 in. ( 244.8 x 233.7 x 21.6 cm)
71 x 68 3/4 in. (180.3 x 174.6 cm)
- Department
- European Painting
- Classification
- Paintings
- Credit
- City of Detroit Purchase
- Accession No.
- 26.114
- Provenance
- Florence, Santo Spirito, Mariotto di Marco della Pala (Palla altarpiece), 1471;
London, Coll. Alexander Baker;
London, auction, A. Barker (Christie's) 6 June 1874, lot 67;
United Kingdom, Herefordshire, Eastnor Castle, Coll. Earl of Somers;
United Kingdom, by descent, Lady Henry Somerset;
United Kingdom, Reigate, The Priory, Coll. Henry-Charles Somers Somerset;
Paris, Trotti and Co., (dealer-1926)
- Keywords
-
oil, paint, panel, religion, wood
Published References
Anonimo Magliabechiano, 1536/46 (ed. Frey, Berlin, 1892), p. 92.
Vasari, G., Le vite de piu eccellenti pittori scultori ed architettori (ed. Milanesi), Florence, 1878, vol. 2, pp. 80-81.
Mesnil, J., "Botticelli, Les Pollaiuoli et Verrocchio. Part II," Rivista d'Arte , vol. 3, 1905, pp. 35-45. esp. p. 39.
Valentiner, W.R., "The Three Archangels of Neri di Bicci," Bulletin of the DIA , vol. 8, no. 2, Nov. 1926, pp. 14-16 (cover ill).
van Marle, R., The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting , Vol. X, The Hague, 1928, p. 544 (author saw picture in Paris sale; considered it "a work of the artist's best manner).
Gronau, G., "Die Erzengebild des Neri di Bicci aus der Kirche S. Santo: Kleine wissenschaftliche Beiträge," Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Instituts in Florenz , vol. 3, no. 3, 1931, pp. 430-34, esp. p. 431, 433 (n.1) fig. 3 (argues that St. Michael predella in Rotterdam once belonged to DIA altarpiece; argument has since been refuted based on wording of Ricordanze, which specifies scene of St.Raphael).
Heil, W., ¦Catalogue of Paintings in the Permanent Collection of The Detroit Institute of Arts,¦ Detroit, 1930, cat. 158, repr.
Valentiner, W.R., "Supplementary remarks on already published works...", Bulletin of the DIA , vol. 13, no. 4, 1931/1932, pp. 42-44, esp. p. 42.
Berenson, B., Italian Pictures of the Renaissance , Oxford, 1932, p. 386 (The Three Archangels).
Berenson, B., Pitture Italiane del Rinascimento , Milan, 1936, p. 331.
The More Important Paintings & Sculptures of the Detroit Institute of Arts , Detroit, 1937, p. 50, repr. only.
Richardson, E.P. (ed.), DIA, Catalogue of Paintings , (2nd ed.), Detroit, 1944, p. 96, no. 158.
DIA, Masterpieces of Painting and Sculpture , Detroit, 1949, p. 52, repr. only.
Paatz, W. & E., Die Kirchen von Florenz, vol. 5, Frankfurt am Main, 1953, pp. 152-53; pp. 199-200 (note 257).
Berenson, B., Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. Florentine School , vol. 1, New York, 1963, vol. 1, p. 153.
DIA, Paintings in the DIA: a checklist of the paintings acquired before June 1965 , Detroit, 1965, p. 80.
Myers, B.S., Encyclopedia of Painting, New York, 1970, p. 360, repr. only.
Cummings, F. and Elam , C., eds., DIA Illustrated Handbook , Detroit, 1971, p. 81, repr.
Fredericksen, B. and Zeri, F., Census of pre-19th century Italian paintings in North American Collections , Harvard, 1972, p. 147 (as "Raphael and Tobias with SS. Michael and Gabriel").
Os, H.W. van, & Prakken, M., Florentine Paintings in Holland 1300-1500 , Maarsen, 1974, pp. 91, n.4 (cited).
Neri di Bicci, Le Ricordanze , Pisa, 1976 (ed. B. Santi), pp. 372-73 and note (entry no. 698, "Tavola di Mariotto della Palla." Tuesday, 7 May 1471).
Santi, B. "Neri di Bicci, L'arcangelo Raffaele e Tobiolo coi santi Simone, Taddeo, Niccolò da Tolentino, Agostino da Ippona, Monica e Giacomo Maggiore" (entry by B. Santi), pp. 54-61, esp. pp. 57, 59, 60; repr. In Da Biduino ad Algardi: Pittura e Scultura a Confronto , (dealer cat., ed. G. Romano), Torino, 1990.
Thomas, A., The Painter's Practice In Renaissance Tuscany , Cambridge University Press, 1995, pp. 312-13, fig. 93, pl. 15.
de Jong-Janssen, C.E., Catalogue of the Italian Paintings in the Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, 1995 (trans. Michael Hoyle), p. 103, p. 105 note. 5 (DIA panel cited in conjunction with predella panels).
¦San Nicola da Tolentino nell'arte, Corpus iconografico¦, vol. 1 (from the origins to the Council of Trent), ed. by Valentino Pace, with Roberto Tollo et. al., Biblioteca Egidiana, convento di San Nicola, Tolentino, 2005 (published by Federico Motta Editore, Milan), pp. 277 (mentioned in entry, by Annamaria Bernacchioni, for cat. 88, a painting of the Pietà and saints by a Florentine painter formerly in the coll. of Lord Arundel; that painting had an inscription mentioning "Ant. Pallaioli" and the supposition is that the two paintings may both have been commissioned by the della Palla family) and 305 (mentioned in entry, by Annamaria Bernacchioni, for cat. 146, a painting of Raphael and Tobias with saints in the Galleria Antichi Maestri Pittori, in Torino; this painting is of a similar composition as 26.114; see color ill. of it, p. 165)
New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery, "Italian Paintings from the Richard L. Feigen Collection," exh. org. by Laurence Kanter and John Marciari, 2010, p. 96-97, fig. 3.
