The Holy Family with Raphael, Tobias and Saint Jerome, or the Virgin with a Fish
1513-1514
High Renaissance
Religious painting
Canvas, Oil, Wood
215 x 158 cm
Prado Museum
(Madrid, Spain)
Story
The Archangel Raphael is presenting the young Tobias to the Virgin enthroned in the centre. Tobias is holding a shining fish, with whose gall bladder he has, according to the story in the Old Testament, cured his father's blindness. St Jerome is on the right with a lion (his main attribute) and a magnificent book.
The work is believed to be by workshop assistants, including Francesco Penni and Giulio Romano. In 1813 the army of Napoleon brought the painting to France where it was transferred from the original wood panel to canvas.