In his only known history painting, the little-known portraitist Van der Fuijck chose a highly unconventional scene from the Book of Tobit. The text describes how Tobias roasts the fish after having removed its heart, liver and gall as instructed by Azarius (the Archangel Raphael in disguise). Van der Fuijck has the angel attend to the fish while Tobias offers a prayer with upraised hands. He evokes a scene of sacrifice, in which the fish appears to allude to the Catholic Church’s rite of communion and the role of the Eucharist within it, perhaps following the cue of Adam Elsheimer, and aiming at a more specific audience than most other images from the Book of Tobit.