The scene of the work, inspired of
the Life of Caésars by Suétonius, represents
Titus
and
Vespasian in laurels and crowned by the Victory
over Judaea, incarnated by the captive carried out by
the horses, and preceded by the candlestick in seven
branches brought back from the Jerusalem temple.
This panel belonged to the decoration ordered in
1537 by Federico Gonzague, duke of Mantoue, for the
cabinet of Caésars of the apartment of Troy. The unit
included eleven portraits of Roman emperors, painted by
Titien, and eleven stories illustrating the life of the
emperors, painted by Giulio Romano. Other elements of
the decoration, dismantled in 1627, acquired by Charles
Ier of England, are preserved today at Hampton Court.