Maquette for a memorial, presumably for the Franco-Prussian war as the date of 1871 is visible. Comprising an equestrian group with a figure of a male warrior, naked other than for an olive garland in his hair and a flowing fluted cape, sitting…
Depicts Christ kneeling to support the limp body of a fallen German soldier in a pieta type composition. Christ notably has ringlets either side of his face, akin to Orthodox Jewish payots.