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Antisemitic caricature of a Dreyfus supporter

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    Antisemitic caricature of a Dreyfus supporter

    Overview

    Brief Narrative
    Print from Musee des Horreurs, an antisemitic series featuring 52 cruel caricatures of well known Jews and others involved in the Dreyfus Affair. It was produced in 1899-1900 by an artist under the pseudonym V. Lenepveu. Many caricatures featured well known Jews, such as the Rothschilds, who were not involved in the scandal, but whose prominence made them targets of the anti-Jewish fanaticism engulfing France. The Dreyfus Affair was a political scandal revolving around antisemitism that inflamed France in the late 19th century. Alfred Dreyfus was an army captain found guilty of treason in 1894 for selling French military secrets to the Germans. Antisemitic publications used Dreyfus as a symbol of the disloyalty of all French Jews. In 1896, another man was tried and acquitted of the same crime. Emile Zola wrote a letter to protest the verdict, titled "J'Accuse," in which he accused the French Army of covering up its unjust conviction of Dreyfus. Zola was charged with libel and the Dreyfus Affair grew into a national political crisis. An Army intelligence officer was found to have forged the document proving Dreyfus's guilt. But in a second trial, despite the confession of the traitor, the Army again convicted Dreyfus and sentenced him to prison for another ten years. The verdict was met with outrage around the world. Dreyfus was pardoned by the president to end the crisis. The poster is one of the more than 900 items in the Katz Ehrenthal Collection of antisemitic artifacts and visual materials.
    Artwork Title
    No. 32, Le Traitre Philipp!
    Series Title
    Musee des Horreurs
    Date
    publication:  1899-1900
    Geography
    publication: Paris (France)
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Katz Family
    Markings
    front, top left, black ink : MUSÉE / DES / HORREURS / Parait tous les Vendredis [Museum of Horrors / Appears ever Friday]
    front, top right, black ink : No. 32 / Le Traître / Philipp! [The Traitor Philipp!]
    front, bottom left, black ink : Le Prix de l’Abonnement à la / sèrie complete de 200 Dessins / est de 40 Fr.
    front, bottom right, within image, black ink : V. Lenepveu
    front, bottom right, black ink : Prochainement: / LUI! / Encore LUI!! / Toujours LUI!!! / La Collection des Numéros parus du “MUSÉE des HORREURS” / est en vente à l’Administration: 58, rue Dulong / et au Bureau de Vente; 10,rue du Croissant. / Impr. Gérant: LENEPVEU, 58,rue Dulong, PARIS [Coming soon: / HIM! / Him again!! / Always HIM !!!]
    Contributor
    Compiler: Peter Ehrenthal
    Publisher: Imprimerie Lenepveu
    Artist: V. Lenepveu
    Biography
    The Katz Ehrenthal Collection is a collection of more than 900 objects depicting Jews and antisemitic and anti-Jewish propaganda from the medieval to the modern era, in Europe, Russia, and the United States. The collection was amassed by Peter Ehrenthal, a Romanian Holocaust survivor, to document the pervasive history of anti-Jewish hatred in Western art, politics and popular culture. It includes crude folk art as well as pieces created by Europe's finest craftsmen, prints and periodical illustrations, posters, paintings, decorative art, and toys and everyday household items decorated with depictions of stereotypical Jewish figures.

    Physical Details

    Language
    French
    Classification
    Posters
    Physical Description
    Poster in black ink on light brown paper depicting a caricature of a man’s head on the body of a black feathered eagle with the top of its wings nailed to a stone wall. He has a bald crown, black hair, and short, curled black sidelocks in front of small, furry ears with pointed tips. His forehead is furrowed, there are hairy moles on his face, and he has stereotypical Jewish features: thick, bushy eyebrows, a hooked, beak-like nose, and fleshy lips. Tears and saliva drip from the corners of his closed, heavily lidded eyes and mouth. His neck is bent, his head hanging to the right with his face in quarter profile. His wings are partially folded and his talons are loosely raised up in front of a short, feathered tail. There is French text across the top and bottom. It is adhered to a slightly larger linen backing.
    Dimensions
    overall: Height: 26.125 inches (66.358 cm) | Width: 20.000 inches (50.8 cm)
    Materials
    overall : paper, ink, linen, adhesive

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    No restrictions on access
    Conditions on Use
    No restrictions on use

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    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The poster was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2016 by the Katz Family.
    Funding Note
    The cataloging of this artifact has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
    Special Collection
    Katz Ehrenthal Collection
    Record last modified:
    2022-07-28 18:30:39
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