Landscape with Tobias laying hold of the Fish

The subject is taken from the apocryphal Book of Tobit (6: 3), and shows the angel commanding Tobias to catch the fish which has attempted to attack him in the river Tigris. Subsequently Tobias uses its gall to cure the blindness of his father Tobit.

This mature work was perhaps painted between 1617 and 1618. It has a companion piece by Domenichino depicting Moses and the Burning Bush in the Metropolitan Museum, New York.