Anton von Werner-Archiv

The presence of the soldier Moltke dominates the little assembly, as he stands up by the table with the lamplight striking upwards on the tense lines of his face. As a portrait this is beyond question a masterpiece. [...] The whole group is a study of expression, but of expression so undemonstrative that it has negative qualities, true to life and rare in Art Werner's admirable draughtsmanship tells well in these soldiers' figures.¹