Art, literature & history
Tobias and the Angel
c. 1780
- Dating
- Approximate
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- black chalk with white heightening on buff laid paper
- Dimensions
- overall: 27.2 x 21300 cm (10 11/16 x 8385 13/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2008.53.1
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Martin Johann Schmidt. Tobias and the Angel. Martin Johann Schmidt; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Martin_Johann_Schmidt,_Tobias_and_the_Angel,_c._1780,_NGA_140128.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Tobias and the Angel — Martin Johann Schmidt. c. 1780.
Medium: black chalk with white heightening on buff laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): overall: 27.2 x 21300 cm (10 11/16 x 8385 13/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2008.53.1. Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.