Three Angels and Young Tobias

Painting by Filippino Lippi

Three Archangels and Young Tobias

Artist	Filippino Lippi
Year	c. 1485
Medium	Oil on panel
Dimensions	100 cm × 127 cm (39 in × 50 in)
Location	Galleria Sabauda, Turin

Three Archangels with Young Tobias is a painting by the Italian Renaissance painter Filippino Lippi, dated c. 1485. It is housed in the Galleria Sabauda of Turin.

On the background of a rocky landscape, resembling that of the London Adoration of the Magi, the picture represents the three archangels: Michael on the left, Raphael in the centre, and Gabriel holding a lily, together with a young Tobias, son of Tobit. The scene is clearly inspired by a Voyage of Tobias by Francesco Botticini, once in the Florentine church of Florence and now in the Uffizi, while the angels resemble those painted by Filippino himself in the Liberation of St. Peter in the Brancacci Chapel.

The work was once attributed to Sandro Botticelli or his workshop.

References

v t e Filippino Lippi
Paintings	Tobias and the Angel (c. 1475–1480) Annunciation with St John the Baptist and St Andrew (c. 1485) Three Angels and Young Tobias (c. 1485) Apparition of the Virgin to St Bernard (c. 1485–1487) Madonna with Child and Saints (c. 1485–1488) Apparition of Christ to the Virgin (c. 1493) Adoration of the Magi (1496) Allegory (c. 1498) (disputed) Marriage of St. Catherine (1501) Annunziata Polyptych (1504–1507) (with Pietro Perugino)
Painting series	Life of Esther (c. 1475) (with Sandro Botticelli)
Chapels	Brancacci Chapel Carafa Chapel
Related	Filippo Lippi (father)

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