The portraits and scenes of musketeers were very popular among the Spanish bourgeois clientele of the 19th century, within a context still inherited from romanticism, which sought in the idealized recreation of the past an escape from everyday reality. Many painters of the time worked along these lines, seeking to capture scenes of the past with the greatest possible verism, recreated with precise attention to detail, worked with a language of academic roots or, as in the case of this panel, with a distinctly modern language, especially sensitive to light and atmosphere.

This type of scenes starring musketeers are part of the genre of casacón painting, scenes worked with a special narrative and descriptive eagerness, which in Spain ...