Simonini was one of the most famous and requested painters of battles in 17th century Italy. After the military campaigns of Marshal Schulenburg, he made a number of paintings documenting, with precise references and intense emotion, several battles that took place in the fields of Europe during that time.

The fight represented here, though highly dramatic, is an elegant exercise in fantasy based on the luminosity of the chromatic palette, the dynamic symmetry of the groups of combatants, and the lightness of the brush stroke.