Oil paint on canvas
Italy
Tate Collection
Works with images
Works on loan
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Turner Bequest
Oil paintings
Collection
Turner owned by Tate
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Tivoli Tobias and Angel
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
actions: expressive
actions: postures and motions
adults
angel
Archangel Raphael
architecture
arm / arms raised
Bible: Old Testament
cities, towns, villages (non-UK)
cliff
countries and continents
hill
Italy
Judaeo-Christian imagery
landscape
man
people
places
pointing
religion and belief
sunrise
sunset
times of the day
Tivoli - non-specific
Tobias
Tobit
townscape, distant
townscapes / man-made features
tree
universal religious imagery
water: inland
waterfall
<p>The pair to 'The Arch of Constantine, Rome', also on this wall, this nearly completed canvas combines a Biblical episode with Italian scenery recollected from Turner's second visit to Rome in 1828.</p><p><em>Gallery label, August 2004</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
13 August 2001 – 23 June 2002
2002-06-23
13 August 2001 – 23 June 2002
2002-06-23
2001-08-13
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2001-08-13
Painting Landscape and History
Collection based display
10 April 2006 – 12 March 2007
2007-03-12
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2006-04-10
Impressions and Ideas Turner's Oil Sketches and Studies
Collection based display
20 March 2009 – 27 July 2009
2009-07-27
20 March 2009
2009-03-20
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2009-03-20
Turner's Later Oil Sketches and Unfinished Works
Collection based display
28 July 2010 – 3 September 2010
2010-09-03
28 July 2010 – 3 September 2010
2010-09-03
2010-07-28
Cyfarthfa Castle Museum and Art Gallery (Merthyr Tydfil, UK)
2010-07-28
Centenary Exhibition
Loan-out
14 March 2012 – 5 June 2012
2012-06-05
14 March 2012 – 5 June 2012
2012-06-05
2012-03-14
National Gallery (London, UK)
http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk
2012-03-14
Turner Inspired: In the Light of Claude
Loan-out
10 September 2014 – 20 September 2015
2015-09-20
10 September 2014 – 25 January 2015
2015-01-25
2014-09-10
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2014-09-10
Late Turner: Painting Set Free
Exhibition
6 July 2019 – 2 May 2021
2021-05-02
8 November 2019 – 26 January 2020
2020-01-26
2019-11-08
LWL-Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Westfälisches (Munster, Germany)
http://landesmuseum.lwl.org
20 February 2020 – 7 September 2020
2020-09-07
2020-02-20
Frist Center for the Visual Arts (Nashville, USA)
15 October 2020 – 2 May 2021
2021-05-02
2020-10-15
Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec (Québec, Canada)
http://www.mnba.qc.ca
2019-07-06
The Sea and the Alps: Turner's Quest for the Sublime
Tate partnerships & programmes
6 July 2024 – 15 January 2028
2028-01-15
6 July 2024 – 1 September 2024
2024-09-01
2024-07-06
Grimaldi Forum (Monaco, Monaco)
30 September 2024 – 7 May 2025
2025-05-07
2024-09-30
Museum of Art Pudong (Shanghai, China)
21 June 2025 – 5 October 2025
2025-10-05
2025-06-21
Queensland Art Gallery of Modern Art (Brisbane, Australia)
1 June 2026 – 1 October 2026
2026-10-01
2026-06-01
External
15 November 2026 – 15 March 2027
2027-03-15
2026-11-15
External
1 May 2027 – 1 September 2027
2027-09-01
2027-05-01
External
15 October 2027 – 15 January 2028
2028-01-15
2027-10-15
External
2024-07-06
Turner's Sublime Legacy
Tate partnerships & programmes
Tivoli: Tobias and the Angel
support: 905 × 1210 mm
frame: 1200 × 1510 × 120 mm
Accepted by the nation as part of the <a href="/search?gid=999999781" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Turner Bequest</a> 1856
<p>The pair to 'The Arch of Constantine, Rome', also on this wall, this nearly completed <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/c/canvas" title="Glossary definition for 'Canvas'"><span>canvas</span></a> combines a Biblical episode with Italian scenery recollected from Turner's second visit to Rome in 1828.</p>
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2004-08-18T00:00:00
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<p><b>437. </b>[<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-tivoli-tobias-and-the-angel-n02067" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N02067</span></a>]<b> Tivoli: Tobias and the Angel</b> <i>c.</i> 1835</p>
<p>THE TATE GALLERY, LONDON (2067)</p>
<p>Canvas, 35 5/8 × 47 5/8 (90·5 × 121)</p>
<p><b>Coll.</b> Turner Bequest 1856; transferred to the Tate Gallery 1949.</p>
<p><b>Exh.</b> Arts Council tour 1952 (14); on loan to the Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin, 1962–7; R.A. 1974–5 (488, repr. in colour p. 117); on loan to the National Museum of Wales 1975–85.</p>
<p><b>Lit.</b> MacColl 1920, p. 35; Davies 1946, p. 155.</p>
<p>This picture and No. 438 [<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-the-arch-of-constantine-rome-n02066" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N02066</span></a>], carried to the same degree of near-completion, probably arose out of Turner's second visit to Rome, developing <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/c/composition" title="Glossary definition for 'Composition'"><span>compositions</span></a> of the kind found among the sketches painted on coarse <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/c/canvas" title="Glossary definition for 'Canvas'"><span>canvas</span></a> in 1828 (see Nos. 302–17). The heavy <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/i/impasto" title="Glossary definition for 'Impasto'"><span>impasto</span></a> and rich colouring seem to parallel the treatment of various interior scenes associated with Petworth and thought to date from the mid 1830s (see Nos. 445–9) but the dating is very tentative (MacColl 1920, p. 34, dated them both 1840 or later).</p>
<p>Tivoli, a recurrent subject among Turner's Italian <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/l/landscape" title="Glossary definition for 'Landscape'"><span>landscapes</span></a> and one ultimately derived from Wilson (see Nos. 44 [<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-tivoli-and-the-roman-campagna-after-wilson-n05512" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N05512</span></a>] and 545 [<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/wilson-tivoli-n05538" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N05538</span></a>]), is here made the setting for a Biblical subject paralleling that of <i>Christ and the Woman of Samaria</i> (No. 433 [<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-landscape-christ-and-the-woman-of-samaria-n01875" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N01875</span></a>]). For a discussion of the topography see Alfred Thornton as reported by MacColl, <i>loc. cit.</i></p>
<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll, <i>The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner</i>, revised ed., New Haven and London 1984
<br/></p>

Catalogue entry
2004-09-23T00:00:00
catalogue-entry
CATALOGUE_ENTRY
actions: expressive actions: postures and motions adults angel Archangel Raphael architecture arm / arms raised Bible: Old Testament cities, towns, villages (non-UK) cliff countries and continents hill Italy Judaeo-Christian imagery landscape man people places pointing religion and belief sunrise sunset times of the day Tivoli - non-specific Tobias Tobit townscape, distant townscapes / man-made features tree universal religious imagery waterfall water: inland