[1] In 1800, the year after the victory of French troops over the Ottomans near the village of Nazareth, in Palestine, at April 8, 1799, a jury attributed the realization of a commemorative work of the event to Antoine-Jean Gros.

[4] Gros was going to be execute it, after making the original sketch, when the First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte ordered that his size was to be considerably reduced, since the final work was meant to have 8 m in length.

[6] The painting depicts Junot, at the left and in profile, riding his white horse, in the moment when he kills a Mamluk with a pistol shot to his head, and, with his sword, he wounds another Ottoman soldier, while the son of the former Pasha of Acre is at his feet.

[8] Soldiers receive with bayonets the fiery charge of an Ottoman horseman, who rushes at them at a gallop, his arms crossed, with a sort an apparent fatalistic resignation.

The exactness of the strategic layouts and the topography, the realism of the portraits, the costumes, and the oriental light, which bathes the whole canvas, obscured in some places by clouds of powder, make this painting one of the most accomplished of Gros.