Life-size knee-length, sitting, sideways to the left, arms resting on the back of the chair. The general field marshal carries open overrock and the order 'pour le mérite'. In the dark background, a column on the left. [...] Inscribed at the bottom right: F. Lenbach. [...] back inscription: Count Moltke, painted in 1890 by Prof. Ritter Franz von Lenbach. Acquired 1905 in Munich.
source: Carl von Bertrab (Bearb.): Beschreibendes Verzeichnis der Gemälde in der Sammlung Rudolf von Goldschmidt Rothschild. Frankfurt a.M. 1912; heinemann.gnm.de/de/kunstwerk-6484.htm
