Louis Lépine in form of a dog kicked from the Museum of Horrors - Antisemitic Poster - Monsters Exhibition

Louis Lépine in form of a dog kicked from the Museum of Horrors - Antisemitic Poster - Monsters Exhibition

A la niche - Poster No. 3 from the Musée des Horreurs series ["Monsters Exhibition" / "Museum of Horrors"]. Paris, October 1899. Hand-painted lithographic print, Louis Lapin is displayed as a watchdog kicked by the Museum of Horrors. Lapin, who headed the Paris police in 1899, is considered by the public to be a figure who supports Dreyfus towards the end of the trial due to reforms and increasing legal powers for French police to stop and curb mass demonstrations against Dreyfus. At the bottom right is an advertising precedent for the next poster that was to be released in the series "Dreyfus the King of Pigs". signed in print by V. Lenepveu. French.

The series "Monsters Exhibition" was published during the Dreyfus affair under a pseudonym, and included 51 large posters with anti-Dreyfus illustrations, antisemitic, and against the "Bonim". The series was published in France over a period of about a year, between October 1899 and December 1900. The original plan was to issue 200 Posters in the series, but in fact only 51 came out. The first posters in the series sold over 300,000 copies. In October 1899 the French police arrested a number of peddlers who sold posters from the series on the orders of District Commander Louis Lapin. According to some reports, Lapin ordered the distribution of posters to be stopped following a request he received from Baron de Rothschild, who claimed that the damage in distributing them is irreversible. In February 1900 the local police sent letters in which they threatened to revoke the trade license from Merchants who would sell the posters, and since then their distribution has stopped.

65X50 cm. Very good condition.