[1] It depicts the formal divorce of Joséphine de Beauharnais from her husband Napoleon, Emperor of France, at the Tuileries Palace in Paris on 15 December 1809.

[3] Josephine, having just signed the document of the civil dissolution of her marriage, is supported by her daughter Hortense.

Napoleon is seated on a throne on the right with Josephine's son Eugène de Beauharnais close by.

Also in the scene are the politicians Michel-Louis-Étienne Regnaud de Saint-Jean d'Angély and Prince Talleyrand as well as the soldiers Marshals Berthier, Bessières, Murat and Ney.

Today it is in the Wallace Collection in London, having been acquired by the Marquess of Hertford in 1865, having previously been in the possession of the Duke of Morny.