[1] Rude assigned him to help with the bronze recumbent effigy to Éléonore-Louis Godefroi Cavaignac, a French politician.

[1] Christophe developed a deep friendship with Cuban-born French poet José-Maria de Heredia and made him his testamentary legatee.

The Statue was acquired and exposed in the Jardin des Tuileries in 1877 and was moved to the Orsay museum since 1986 after restoration works in the Louvre.

[4] The sculpture inspired Christophe's friend Charles Baudelaire to write his poem Le Masque (the Mask).

[7] La Fatalité, a statue executed by Christophe in 1885, inspired another French poet Leconte de Lisle's poem of the same title.