The great bronze warhorse rears triumphantly against a colonnaded sky — this is the equestrian monument to Prince Eugene of Savoy, conqueror of the Ottomans and liberator of Vienna, photographed in sharp real-photo detail at the Heldenplatz forecourt of the Hofburg in early 1940s Vienna. The sculptor Anton Dominik Fernkorn's masterwork of 1865 is captured here in its full dramatic sweep, flanked by the sweeping curved Neue Burg colonnade, and a dog-walker and a small child provide a charming sense of everyday life continuing in the shadow of imperial grandeur. It was on this very square — the Heldenplatz — that the massive crowd gathered in March 1938 to witness Hitler declare the Anschluss, a ghost that haunts this otherwise serene image. Published by Donauland, Wien III, this unused RPPC is in excellent condition.