A depiction of the talks in the village of donchery, ardennes, france, on 2 september 1870, hours after the french army of châlons had run up a white flag over sedan. Members of the french delegation pictured on the left: supreme commander emmanuel félix de wimpffen (just standing up), general auguste-alexandre ducrot, and other officers. Members of the delegation from the prussian coalition pictured on the right: supreme commander helmuth von moltke the elder (standing at the table), otto von bismarck (sitting to moltke's left), general field marshall leonhard graf von blumenthal, general field marshall alexander august wilhelm von pape, commanders of the 3rd- and the maas-army, and other officers. Object Type: painting. Date: after 2 September 1870. Medium: oil on canvas. Anton von Werner, Kapitulations-Verhandlungen von Sedan (19. Jhdt., Schwarz-Weiß-Version)
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