The Archangel Raphael leading two Dominican friars in a coastal landscape

The Archangel Raphael Leading Two Dominican Friars in a Coastal Landscape, at the Bonnefanten Museum in Maastricht, shows Neri di Bicci engaging with a narrative subject that allowed him to combine sacred figures with a landscape backdrop—a relatively progressive format for mid-fifteenth-century Florence. The two Dominican friars in white habits are identifiable by their order, and the archangel Raphael's guidance evokes the apocryphal story of Tobias. The coastal setting gives the panel an unusual scenic character for a Florentine workshop.

The three figures are placed in a lateral procession across the lower portion of the panel, with the coastal landscape receding behind them in simplified perspective. Neri uses gold leaf for the archangel's halo and wing tips while rendering the landscape in muted earth tones—green ochre for vegetation, pale blue for sea and sky—maintaining the hierarchical distinction between sacred and natural elements.