A bearded man in a red cloak and a garland of flowers sits on a couch at the left, a spear beside him, while a crowned nude woman reclines across his lap and the red drapery, raising a wreath of flowers. Three nude women with flowers in their hair stand behind, one holding a cup and one a pitcher; a plumed helmet and a round shield rest nearby. Two white doves perch on the drapery, and a small winged boy at the lower right unlaces the man's sandal.

Clouds drift behind white columns. The scene shows Mars, the god of war, being disarmed by Venus and the Three Graces. Jacques-Louis David painted it in Brussels, where he spent his last years in exile; the signature on the stool reads L. DAVID BRUX 1824.

It was his last work, and it was shown at a paid exhibition in Paris, where it was very well received. Jules David-Chassagnol of Paris left the picture to the Brussels museum in a bequest in 1886, and it entered the collection in 1893. It is in the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium in Brussels.