Jan Breughel the Elder was the most inventive of the artistic progeny of Pieter Bruegel the Elder, from whom he adopted the synthetic “world landscape” combining elements from various regions. Like his father, he also produced designs for prints, and here sets Tobias and the Angel in a rich landscape with forests and mountains and populated with lively groups of figures. While the series to which this print belongs is not devoted to the Book of Tobit, the artist has here used a scene from that narrative as the thematic focus of his elaborate landscape invention.