[1][2] It depicts the Battle of Hohenlinden fought on 3 December 1800 near Munich during the French Revolutionary Wars, where Jean Victor Marie Moreau led the Army of the Rhine of the French Republic to victory over the combined armies of Austria and Bavaria.

[3] Moreau is in the centre of the composition which also features Emmanuel de Grouchy, Michel Ney and Antoine Richepance.

During the July Monarchy of the 1830s, Louis Philippe I oversaw the restoration of the Palace of Versailles as a history museum.

A large number of works were commissioned from leading artists for the reopened palace.

[5] It today hangs in the Galerie des Batailles at Versailles.