[2] The work, painted in International Gothic style, depicts Saint George's legend in the setting of Catalonia during the first half of the 15th century.

The scene in the foreground shows Saint George on a stark white horse, about to defeat the dragon by stabbing it with his lance.

In the immediate background, the princess stands praying behind them; she is dressed in a pink robe lined with ermine fur, with a large golden crown above her red-golden hair.

[2][3] In the style typical of International Gothic works, the ground rises steeply behind the scene but, unusually, it does not stretch behind the entire painting.

[3] The main axis of the composition can be placed by the shaft of Saint George's lance and an imaginary vertical line drawn through the eyes of the dragon, the horse, and the princess.