[1] On the left, a Division General in a tail-coat and distinctive gold and scarlet sash is pointing, while addressing a cuirassier officer, probably the Colonel of the 12th Regiment.

Behind them stands a trumpeter in yellow, an aide-de-camp to the Division General in a hussar-style uniform, and two more cuirassiers.

It was bought for 275,000 francs by the Belgian collector Prosper Crabbe,[1] and then passed into the collection of Ernest Secrétan.

In the 1889 auction of that collection, it was listed as lot 39 and bought for 199,652 francs by Henri d'Orleans, duke of Aumale.

The painting was later donated, alongside the rest of his collection and property, to the Institut de France; it now forms part of the Musée Condé.