Auction 84 · Lot 129
Musée des Horreurs. Number 32 (of 51) by V. Lenepveu. Lithographed poster, multi-colored tones.
- Estimate
- $400–$600
- Hammer price
- Not recorded
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
author
(DREYFUS AFFAIR)
Place
Paris, 1899-1900
summary
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. 32 here caricatures Phillippe de Rothschild as an eagle tacked to a wall.
Linen-backed. Light tears repaired. 26 x 20 inches (66 x 50.8 cm).
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