HERMANN-PAUL. Deux cents Dessins 1897-1899 [compilation of illustrations in support of Dreyfus]

(DREYFUS AFFAIR)

Revue Blanche

Paris

1900

Numerous photomechanical print illutrations. * WITH: 15 original drawings. Caricatures of French personalities. India ink on paper. Titled in pencil. Each laid to board. Many reproduced in Deux cents Dessins

Benezit, vol. IV, p. 672; cf. N.L. Kleeblatt, The Dreyfus Affair: Art, Truth & Justice (1987), fig. 47, p.89 (illus) and nos 149-153 p.282

French illustrator and Dreyfusard, Hermann-Paul brought his skill at caricature in support of Alfred Dreyfus’ cause with numerous satirical journals. An ardent revisionist, many of Hermann-Paul’s drawings appeared in Félex Vallotton’s journal Le Cri de Paris. Indeed, he was one of the principal illustrators of the journal supporting the Dreyfus cause. Images relating to the Dreyfus Affair comprise most of this album and includes Paul’s eloquent response to Zola’s “j’Accuse” which appeared in the 16 January 1898 edition of Le Cri de Paris on p. 10. Another compilation of Hermann-Paul’s images, “Guignols,” was issued in 1899. See P. D. Cate, The Paris Cry: Graphic Artists and the Dreyfus Affair pp. 88-89 in; N.L. Kleeblatt, The Dreyfus Affair: Art, Truth & Justice (1987)