[ANTISEMITISM - DREYFUS AFFAIR]
Victor LENEPVEU (19th - 20th century)
4 cartoons (No. 2, 4, 22, 26) from the ...

[ANTISEMITISM - DREYFUS AFFAIR]
Victor LENEPVEU (19th - 20th century)
4 cartoons (No. 2, 4, 22, 26) from the Museum of Horrors suite. 1899-1900.
Lithographed in poster size (65 x 50 cm)
Misses and restorations, as often.
The large antidreyfusard and obscene caricatures in colors of Victor Lenepveu form the formidable Musée des horreurs. By their colors, their obscenity and their cruelty, the posters of the Museum of Horrors reach a peak in abjection. With a violence rarely equaled, the caricatures of the Museum of Horrors are all the more effective because the faces of the personalities represented are identifiable at first glance. Placed on the bodies of often monstrous animals, they are insulting and degrading: Émile Zola, as a pig sitting on a trough, smears the map of France with excrement; Captain Dreyfus is depicted as a snake carrying a sign reading "Le traitre" ("The Traitor"), etc. All the Dreyfusards are represented: Francis de Pressensé, Georges Clemenceau, Alfred Dreyfus, Émile Loubet, Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau, Joseph Reinach, Alphonse, Léonard, James, Philippe and Henri de Rothschild, Émile Zola, Ludovic Trarieux, etc.
Rarely has anti-Semitic hatred reached such heights in France and found a more effective illustrator than Victor Lenepveu, whose images are all the more terrifying because they are, from the point of view of caricature, remarkable and of an impressive format.