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The Virgin and Child with an Angel, the Archangel Michael, and the Archangel Raphael with Tobias

The Virgin and Child with an Angel, the Archangel Michael, and the Archangel Raphael with Tobias





Artist : Pietro di Cristoforo Vannucci ( Il Perugino)

Date : approx. between 1496 and 1500

Sizes : 113 cm x 64 cm
Material : Oil on poplar, Tempera on poplar
Acquisition : Purchase (1856)
National Gallery
Siena and Perugia
Sainsbury Wing
First Floor - Section 60
Item 13 on 13
Italian Painting
Painting

Area related
Pavia (Italy)

Description   

These three panels are fragments of an altarpiece painted for a side-chapel of the Charterhouse at Pavia, a Carthusian monastery near Milan. The central Virgin and Child are flanked by the Archangel Saint Michael on the left, standing on Satan. Raphael and the young Tobias are on the right. Only a small part of Satan is visible beneath the feet of the Archangel Michael who, as captain of the heavenly hosts, overthrew him. In the other side panel, the dog that accompanied Tobias and the Archangel Raphael on their journey has been cut.

Signed on the panel of Saint Michael: PETRVS PERVSINV(S) / PINXIT
The Virgin and Child with an Angel, the Archangel Michael, and the Archangel Raphael with Tobias
Pietro di Cristoforo Vannucci (Le Pérugin)