Tobias and the Angel
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The boy does not know who is walking beside him. He greeted the stranger "not knowing that he was an angel of God." Filippino paints the not-knowing: they totter midstride, heads partly inclined, the National Gallery of Art reading the tilt as eyes about to meet.
They never do. The remedy travels with him — a fish's gall, which the angel says heals eyes clouded by a white speck, and will open his father's.
Only at the end does the guide name himself: "I am the angel Raphael, one of the seven." The boy has still not met his eye.
Sources: National Gallery of Art, object record, accession 1939.1.229 · Samuel H. Kress Foundation, Kress Collection record, K418 · Metropolitan Museum of Art, Heilbrunn essay, 'Filippino Lippi (ca. 1457-1504)' · Italian Renaissance Learning Resources, NGA / Oxford University Press, Unit 6, 'Moving Pictures' · USCCB, New American Bible Revised Edition, Tobit 5 · Douay-Rheims (Challoner), Tobias 6:9 · Douay-Rheims (Challoner), Tobias 11:8 · Douay-Rheims (Challoner), Tobias 11:13-14 · Douay-Rheims (Challoner), Tobias 12:15
And not knowing that he was an angel of God, he saluted him, and said: From whence art thou, good young man?
Tobit 5:6 · Douay-Rheims (Challoner), from the project’s own corpus at data/bible_drc.js
Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 7,769 px master of the original. The whole image is printed — never cropped to fit the sheet — so every sheet carries an archival margin, and the dimensions and resolution listed above are the ones you receive.