[1] Combining elements of portraiture and history painting, it shows Louis Antoine, Duke of Angoulême during the Battle of Trocadero on 31 August 1823.

In 1823 he led the Hundred Thousand Sons of Saint Louis, a French military intervention in Spain to support the Ferdinand VII.

Ferdinand, a fellow Bourbon monarch, had been seized and forced to implement measures he opposed by the Liberal government.

Angoulême's forces made swift progress and the Spanish government retreated to the port of Cadiz with Ferdinand in its custody.

[2] Delaroche received a commission from the French government to focus on Angoulême's military success in Spain.