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{{Short description|Painting by the workshop of Andrea del Verocchio}}
{{Infobox Artwork
| image_file=Workshop of Andrea del Verrocchio. Tobias and the Angel. 33x26cm. 1470-75. NG London.jpg
| title=Tobias and the Angel
| artist=[[Andrea del Verrocchio]]
| year=1470–1480
| type=Egg tempera on poplar
| height_metric=83.6 
| width_metric=66
| height_imperial=
| width_imperial=
| metric_unit=cm
| imperial_unit=in
| museum=[[National Gallery]], [[London]]
}}

'''''Tobias and the Angel''''' is a painting in egg [[tempera]] on poplar panel, finished around 1470–1475, measuring 83.6 × 66 cm.<ref>{{cite web|title=Workshop of Andrea del Verrocchio &#124; Tobias and the Angel &#124; NG781 &#124; The National Gallery, London|url=http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/workshop-of-andrea-del-verrocchio-tobias-and-the-angel|website=The National Gallery|accessdate=31 May 2015}}</ref> It is painting by the [[Italian Renaissance painter]] [[Andrea del Verrocchio]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Wilson|first1=Michael|title=The National Gallery, London|date=1977|publisher=Orbis Publishing Limited|location=London|isbn=0-85613-314-0|page=[https://archive.org/details/nationalgalleryl00wils/page/42 42]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/nationalgalleryl00wils/page/42}}</ref> It is now in the [[National Gallery]], London. This painting is similar to [[Tobias and the Angel (Pollaiuolo)|an earlier painting]] depicting Tobias and the Angel, by Piero and [[Antonio del Pollaiuolo]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Brown|first1=David Allan|date=1998|publisher=Yale University Press|location=New Haven and London|isbn=0-300-07246-5|pages=47–50|title=Leonardo da Vinci: Origins of a Genius-David Alan Brown- Google Books|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z34SeyFWV8oC}}</ref>  [[Tobias and the Angel]] was a popular subject in [[Florence]] at the time.

Various art historians have suggested that the young [[Leonardo da Vinci]], who was a member of Verrocchio's studio, may have painted some part of this work,<ref>[[Martin Davies (museum director)|Davies, Martin]], ''The Earlier Italian Schools'', National Gallery Catalogues, 556-557, 1961, reprinted 1986, {{ISBN|0901791296}}. Suida in 1954 was apparently the first, covering both dog and fish.</ref> most likely the fish,<ref>{{cite book|last1=Kemp|first1=Martin|date=2011|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=Oxford|isbn=978-0-19-958335-5|page=251|title=Leonardo: Revised Edition-Martin Kemp-Google Books|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TyFgNvsYNc0C&q=martin+kemp+tobias+and+the+angel&pg=PA251|accessdate=31 May 2015}}</ref> or the dog, supported by David Alan Brown, of the [[National Gallery, Washington]]. If so, this would be perhaps the first extant example of a painting with input by Leonardo.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Brown|first1=David Allan|date=1998|publisher=Yale University Press|location=New Haven and London|isbn=0-300-07246-5|pages=47–56|title=Leonardo da Vinci: Originss of a Genius-David Alan Brown- Google Books|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z34SeyFWV8oC}}</ref>

<div align="center"><gallery widths="200" heights="200" caption="Possibly attributed to the young Leonardo da Vinci:">
File:Verrocchio Tobias and the angel detail 02.jpg|{{center|The fish}}
File:Verrocchio Tobias and the angel detail 01.jpg|{{center|The dog}}
</gallery></div>

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==External links==
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