DREYFUS AFFAIRLENEPVEU (VICTOR), pseudonym. Musée des Horreurs [Gallery of Horrors], 52 colour-printed lithographic posters (numbered 1-51, and "30 ans après"), professionally backed with archival tissue, a few small marginal repairs (small loss to image at fore-edge of nos. 37-39), printing flaw to one corner of no. 25, loose in modern cloth portfolio, gilt morocco lettering label on upper cover, some stains, sheets 650 x 508mm., [Paris, Léon Hayard, 1899-1900]FootnotesA RARE COMPLETE SET OF FIFTY-TWO POSTERS RELATING TO THE DREYFUS AFFAIR. The posters, virulently Anti-Semitic and offensive in tone, were issued in Paris in reaction to the election of a pro-Dreyfusard cabinet whose leaders had belatedly granted the innocent Dreyfus an official pardon in September 1899. Printed over the course of a year, the series was at last banned by the Ministry of the Interior after fifty-one posters had appeared. The subjects caricature Dreyfus himself, prominent Jews (including various members of the Rothschild family), Dreyfus supporters (including Emile Zola , and Republican statesmen. This set includes the additional, unnumbered poster ("30 ans après!...") depicting Dreyfus strangling Marianne, the personification of France, prominent Jews, Dreyfus supporters, and Republican statesman, typically showing the head of the subject with the body of an animal, or grotesquely caricatured body. It is probable that the series was instigated by Léon Hayard, the publisher of Musée des horreurs, but known also for distributing other anti-Dreyfus material pamphlets and broadsides. The series represents, in startling visual form, an enormously important episode in French political and social history, the debate about which maintains its relevance to this day.
DREYFUS AFFAIRLENEPVEU (VICTOR), pseudonym. Musée des Horreurs [Gallery of Horrors], 52 colour-printed lithographic posters (numbered 1-51, and "30 ans après"), professionally backed with archival tissue, a few small marginal repairs (small loss to image at fore-edge of nos. 37-39), printing flaw to one corner of no. 25, loose in modern cloth portfolio, gilt morocco lettering label on upper cover, some stains, sheets 650 x 508mm., [Paris, Léon Hayard, 1899-1900]FootnotesA RARE COMPLETE SET OF FIFTY-TWO POSTERS RELATING TO THE DREYFUS AFFAIR. The posters, virulently Anti-Semitic and offensive in tone, were issued in Paris in reaction to the election of a pro-Dreyfusard cabinet whose leaders had belatedly granted the innocent Dreyfus an official pardon in September 1899. Printed over the course of a year, the series was at last banned by the Ministry of the Interior after fifty-one posters had appeared. The subjects caricature Dreyfus himself, prominent Jews (including various members of the Rothschild family), Dreyfus supporters (including Emile Zola , and Republican statesmen. This set includes the additional, unnumbered poster ("30 ans après!...") depicting Dreyfus strangling Marianne, the personification of France, prominent Jews, Dreyfus supporters, and Republican statesman, typically showing the head of the subject with the body of an animal, or grotesquely caricatured body. It is probable that the series was instigated by Léon Hayard, the publisher of Musée des horreurs, but known also for distributing other anti-Dreyfus material pamphlets and broadsides. The series represents, in startling visual form, an enormously important episode in French political and social history, the debate about which maintains its relevance to this day.
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