TOURNIER, Nicolas
(b. 1590, Montbéliard, d. ca. 1638, Toulouse)

The Guardian Angel

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Oil on canvas, 235 x 188 cm
Cathedral, Narbonne

In Toulouse, Nicolas Tournier painted religious pictures in the idiom of Caravaggio and genre compositions in the manner of Caravaggio's pupil Bartolomeo Manfredi. The Guardian Angel (Tobias and the Angel) is in the Chapel of the Annunciation of Narbonne Cathedral.