The journey of Tobias from the Apocryphal Book of Tobit provided artists with an opportunity to combine biblical narrative with a rich and capricious landscape. Van Wtenbrouck followed the landscape model of the prominent Flemish artist Paul Bril (1554-1626), which is characterized by expansive vistas, and situated his figures of Tobias and the Angel in a vast invented landscape that recedes gradually into the distance. Likely inspired by the same set of drawings by Van Wtenbrouck, Van de Velde’s nonetheless interprets this scene differently, focusing on the figures, now accompanied by the faithful dog, and their immediate surroundings, a marshy bush.