 The picture narrates a scene of travellers on horses attempting to ward off an attack of robbers.Many of his scenes of ambushes reflect the helplessness of the civilian victims.Vrancx had various followers in the southern Netherlands including Pieter Meulener, Jacques van der Wijen and Adam Frans van der Meulen, who was a pupil of Peter Snayers (a pupil of Vrancx) and later moved to France.