In this rarely depicted Old Testament scene, the prophet Elisha rebukes his servant, Gehazi, for dishonesty. The bold passages of colour are hallmarks of Lambert Jacobsz’s style, but the technique of scratching into the paint with the butt end of the brush may derive from Rembrandt, whose paintings Jacobsz sold in his Leeuwarden dealership. Rembrandt, in turn, took up the compositional formula of large-scale figures engaged in animated conversation, as did artists in his orbit such as Jan Victors and Abraham van Dijck.