Group of 21 (of 51) Musée des Horreurs lithographed posters by V. Lenepveu

(DREYFUS AFFAIR)

Paris

1899-1900

Each laid down on linen

A series of 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 caricaturist are: Alfred Dreyfus, Emile Zola, Nathan Rothschild, Caroline Remy Guebhard and Jean Jaures. See N.L. Kleeblatt, The Dreyfus Affair: Art Truth & Justice (1987) pp. 242-52 (illustrated) For another (incomplete) set of Musée des Horreurs posters see: Sotheby’s Tel Aviv, 9th November 1998, lot 27