细节
DREYFUS, ALFRED (1859-1935). Photograph postcard signed ("A Dreyfus"), by Collection C. Coquelin (imprint on lower margin), n.p., n.d. [circa 1905]. 138 x 88 mm. (5 7/16 x 3½ in.) including mount. A shoulder-length portrait of Dreyfus in uniform, signed on the margin.
In 1894, Captain Alfred Dreyfus was convicted of treason and imprisoned on Devil's Island. Later investigation, forced largely by Emile Zola (see lot xxx), uncovered that officers Maj. Esterhazy and Lieut. Col. Henry forged the papers on which Dreyfus had been convicted. The case became the center of a major political division in France in which anti-semitism played a major role. In 1906, the original verdict against Dreyfus was set aside, and Dreyfus was restored to rank in the army and given the decoration of the Legion of Honor.
In 1894, Captain Alfred Dreyfus was convicted of treason and imprisoned on Devil's Island. Later investigation, forced largely by Emile Zola (see lot xxx), uncovered that officers Maj. Esterhazy and Lieut. Col. Henry forged the papers on which Dreyfus had been convicted. The case became the center of a major political division in France in which anti-semitism played a major role. In 1906, the original verdict against Dreyfus was set aside, and Dreyfus was restored to rank in the army and given the decoration of the Legion of Honor.
来源
The Cornelius Greenway Collection (sale, Part II, Sotheby Parke Bernet, 4 May 1971, lot 101).