It was the second face-to-face meeting between Napoleon and Alexander I of Russia following the Congress of Tilsit in 1807.

Specifically it shows the moment when Karl von Vincent, the envoy of the Austrian Empire is received by Napoleon.

Alexander is on the right of the picture while Napoleon's advisor on foreign affairs Talleyrand stands behind the table.

The Prussian foreign minister August Friedrich Ferdinand von der Goltz is also shown.

It was commissioned during the July Monarchy by Louis Philippe I and is today in the Palace of Versailles.