Landschap met de barmhartige Samaritaan die de gewonde reiziger bij een herberg afzet

In the foreground, the Good Samaritan helps the wounded traveler dismount a horse outside a timber-framed inn while conversing with the host. The composition features the characteristic towering trees and swirling cloud formations of the Haarlem style. In the distance to the right, tiny figures depict the earlier stages of the biblical story: the traveler being attacked by thieves and passed by a priest and a Levite.

As a leading figure of the Haarlem Mannerists, Goltzius utilized the 'world landscape' format to create a moralized vision of nature where human drama is embedded within a vast, complex environment. This approach to landscape often reflected the philosophical idea of the macrocosm mirroring the moral state of the microcosm.