Gen. Picquart – Vintage Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with Gen. Picquart, a historic photograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Gen. Picquart
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Bain News Service captioned this glass negative as "Gen. Picquart," though the record notes that the identification comes from unverified caption data. If it is correct, the sitter is Georges Picquart, the French army officer who became famous in the Dreyfus affair. In 1896 he found evidence pointing to Major Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy as the real traitor, and his insistence on the truth cost him his post and sent him into disgrace for several years. He was later vindicated, rose to general, and served as France's Minister of War in 1906 and 1907. Because the record gives no date, the portrait can be placed only in the broad early-twentieth-century period of Bain's work.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Temp. note: Batch four loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 4,273 × 5,823 px · prints to 14 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-16501 |
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