Musée des Horreurs. Number 6 (of 51) by V. Lenepveu.
Auction 90 |
Tuesday, July 21st,
2020 at 1:00pm
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Graphic & Ceremonial Arts
Lot 37
(DREYFUS AFFAIR).
Musée des Horreurs. Number 6 (of 51) by V. Lenepveu.
Paris, 1899-1900:
Est: $400 - $600
PRICE REALIZED $600
Anti-Semitic political poster from a series defaming prominent Jews and Dreyfusards. The posters appeared weekly in Paris beginning in the Fall of 1899, until stopped by order of the French Ministry of the Interior about a year later.
No. 6 here, caricatures as a serpent, Alfred Dreyfus himself, and is the most iconic of the entire series.