Burnt photograph following the fire of the studio on the 6th November 1948.

Statues always fascinated Pierre Jahan, whose earliest documentary photographic succes was "Le Dévot Christ de la cathédrale Saint-Jean de Perpignan", published in 1934 in collaboration with Raymond Gid and showing the statues of the cathedral. This fascination will follow him during the years of the Occupation of Paris in WWII, where he will create his most famous work - La Mort et les Statues, documenting the destruction of statues in Paris in order to obtein more metal to fuel the war. Published after the Liberation of Paris, with a text by Jean Cocteau, his longtime friend, the work remains one of the most important accounts of the Paris occupation.

This photomontage is more representative of a more playful side of Pierre Jahan, who always liked to animate his "menagerie" of statues in new and different contexts, in a quest for freedom and the marvelous.