Under her feet lies a man in armor with a sword, his hands wrapped in chains.

On her left, women have baskets of fruit and a putto is playing a drum.

[2] The man in chains under the feet of Pax is Mars, the god of war.

[4] The National Gallery of Art, in Washington D.C., states that the painting has complex iconography.

[2] Art critic Ken Johnson writing for The New York Times said it "falls far short of the kind of dynamism that Rubens could bring to such mythological symbolism" and calls it a "big, sugary allegory" with winged putti fluttering about.