Depicting a band of soldiers robbing a caravan, this painting was verified in 1979 by Matías Díaz Padrón as a work by Sebastian Vrancx. A detailed observation of the board reveals that it is not the peaceful scene one might infer at first sight and which led it to be entered in the collection under the title Descanso en el camino (A Rest on the Road).

Vrancx specialised in scenes from battles, camps and military life, showing the violence surrounding the Thirty Years War and voicing his criticism of the Spanish occupation of the Low Countries.

Though the artist was a contemporary of Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), his narrative technique and aesthetics retain some of the painterly conventions of the previous century. An accomplished interpreter of the movements of animals and with a keen sensibility as a landscape painter, his work has often been wrongly attributed to Jan Brueghel de Velours (1568-1625), albeit endowed with greater pathos. The posture of the rider on the right with the horse in corvette repeats a model from Rubens.