● On view now — 201 French Neoclassical Painting & Sculpture
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland · verified August 2026
FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG
This series of paintings predominantly tells the Old Testament story of Abraham and Isaac, and each of the canvases treats the interaction of humans and angels. In three works, angels appear to Abraham. However, the narrative of Tobias and the Angel comes from an entirely different book of the Bible. The blind Tobit sends his son Tobias off to collect a sum of money in the distant town of Media, with the angel Raphael accompanying him in disguise as a human. This particular work depicts Raphael overseeing Tobias catching a fish, which would later be used to cure his father's blindness.
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Alessandro Magnasco — The Baptism of Christ
Alessandro Magnasco — Carthusian Monks in a Landscape
Alessandro Magnasco — Landscape with the Temptation of Chris
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo — The Sacrifice of Isaac
Alessandro Magnasco — Landscape with Saint Bruno ?
Jan Frans van Bloemen — One of a Pair of Views of the Roman 
Pieter Bodding van Laer — A Shepherd and Washerwomen at a Sp
Francesco Maffei — Hagar and the Angel
Jean-Honoré Fragonard (French, 1732–1806) — Saint Jerome
Giovanni Lanfranco — The Prophet Elijah Awakened in the Dese
Nicolas Poussin (French, 1594–1665) — The Return of the Holy
Henri Fantin-Latour (French, 1836–1904) — Debut from Paradis
