The Battle of Wagram (French: Bataille de Wagram, 6 Juillet 1809) is an 1836 history painting by the French artist Horace Vernet.
[1] It depicts Napoleon at the Battle of Wagram fought in July 1809 during the War of the Fifth Coalition.
The battle, part of the Napoleonic Wars, was a victory for the French over the Austrian forces under Archduke Charles.
Napoleon is mounted, watching the battle progress through a spyglass while he holds a half-opened battle plan in the other.
[2] It commissioned during the July Monarchy by Louis Philippe I who as part of the restoration of the Palace of Versailles as a museum created the Galerie des Batailles filled with paintings of historic French victories.