The Archangel Raphael and Tobias (Titian)
Another painting by Titian of the same subject, entitled Tobias and the Angel (Tobiolo e l'angelo), dated to about 1540 to 1545, remains in the church of the Madonna dell'Orto in Venice.They have advanced quite to the front walking briskly; their attention is directed to the vase which Raphael carries—the boy's eye is fixed intently upon it.The left half of the picture is filled by the entrance to a wood, in the shadow of which a kneeling man’s figure (perhaps John the Baptist) is to be seen.[6] According to Georg Gronau, the Annunciation and Tobias and the Archangel exhibit similar artistic tendencies, especially in colour, to the Presentation of Mary in the Temple.[7] Ricketts is critical the first two pictures mentioned: "Both are sadly darkened owing to neglect—neither is quite worthy of Titian—both suggest an earlier type of design executed at a period when the painter's technique had changed and become unsuited to the character of the composition.