The Good Samaritan, (after Delacroix)

If viewers were to see the two paintings - Rembrandt's and Van Gogh's side by side - the first thing that would strike you is the light in Van Gogh's painting and the darkness in Rembrandt's. Though not sharing the bright colors of his paintings in Arles, Van Gogh's painting of The Good Samaritan, is well lit which means the viewer can make out things more clearly in the painting. 

This painting is based upon The Good Samaritan parable, told by Jesus in the Gospel of Luke.

One of the artists whose works Van Gogh copied and modified was the Dutch Gold Age painter Rembrandt. The Good Samaritan by Rembrandt drew Van Gogh's attention: in which a Samaritan man hoists a wounded man with a bandaged head onto a horse to be taken to an inn for recovery.