La Bataille d'Aboukir (French for 'The Battle of Aboukir') by Antoine-Jean Gros is an oil-on-canvas painting commissioned by Joachim Murat in 1805 and completed in 1806.

An original sketch, Murat Defeating the Turkish Army at Aboukir, was completed before the larger painting, and it is now on display at the Detroit Institute of Arts.

Napoleon's Egyptian campaign, an effort to weaken British trade routes to India, began in May 1798 when he set sail from Toulon with three hundred ships and over fifty thousand men.

The final charge was made by Murat, who is the focal point of the painting, and his cavalry, who chased and killed almost every soldier in sight as they retreated to their ships.

Coupled with political instability in France, he secretly left Egypt weeks after the battle, returning home to stage his rise to power.

[5] A cloud of dust and smoke hovers over the top of the canvas, with the ocean and fort in the distant background providing context for the battle's location.

Another beheading is visible in the bottom left corner, as a Turk in red is collapsing with the decapitated head of a French soldier in a satchel attached to his chest.

[8] Gros exaggerated the physical nature of the Ottomans, depicting them wearing large turbans and elaborate, exotic uniforms, emphasizing their foreignness and differences from the French.

[3] The Battle of Aboukir serves as an important component of the Salle du Sacre gallery at Versailles, which was constructed in 1834 per order of Louis Philippe I.