 In the summer of 1866, as Garibaldi led his Hunters of the Alps fighting against Austria in the Third Italian War of Independence, Ney and her husband were staying in Austrian Tyrol; after Ney's death, her long-time housekeeper revealed that Ney acted as an intelligence source in enemy territory for Garibaldi during this time, feeding him information in a secret correspondence.Some historians have speculated that Ney's covert work for Garibaldi may have led to her next major artistic commission, a portrait bust of Prussian Chancellor Otto von Bismarck (Garibaldi's ally in the war against Austria).The sculpture is a portrait bust, high, rendered in marble.