Set of Musée des Horreurs lithographed posters. Numbers 1- 51 by V. Lenepveu. No. 47 in duplicate.

(DREYFUS AFFAIR)

Paris

1899-1900

Together, two works bound in one.

See N.L. Kleeblatt, The Dreyfus Affair: Art Truth & Justice (1987) pp.242-52 (illustrated)

Anti-semitic political posters defaming prominent Jews and Dreyfusards, depicting their faces attached to grotesque animal bodies. These vicious 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. Among those lambasted by the bigoted carcaturist are: Alfred Dreyfus, Emile Zola, Nathan Rothschild, Caroline Remy Guebhard and Jean Jaures. * ACCOMPANIED BY: “Bruno”. Autour du Cabinet- Les gens du “Bloc.” [album of anti-Semitic and anti-Dreyfusards cartoons]. With preface by Edourd Drumont amd François Coppée. Text in French. Twenty-one photomechanical print illustrations. pp. (24). Original color illustrated wrappers. Oblong sm. folio. Paris, E. Paget pour Librairie Antisémite, 1903.