Sunday, 4 October 2026

Édouard Debat-Ponsan's painting of Truth, shown at the 1898 Salon in support of Dreyfus

Painting of a half-naked red-haired woman raising a mirror as she climbs from a well, while two men in dark and patterned clothes hold her by her garment.

“Truth Coming Out of Her Well”, where a soldier and a prelate would like to hide her. Édouard Debat-Ponsan. The painting was shown at the Salon of 1898, and the artist offered the canvas to Émile Zola in support of Captain Dreyfus

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