MUSEUM OF HORRORS DREYFUS AFFAIR POSTER

MUSEUM OF HORRORS DREYFUS AFFAIR POSTER

Hand-colored anti-Semitic poster, 20 x 26 in., illustrated by V. Lenepveu, ca. 1900, showing a caricature of Clement-Armand Fallieres (1841-1931), then-president of the French Senate, holding up a notice stating: "Session of June 2, 1900...Message from the Jewish Ball to the Senators". This poster, issued tellingly by the "Museum of Horrors", was number 37 in a series of 51 satirical posters attacking politicians, writers and journalists who had taken "Dreyfusard" positions. While this work implies Fallieres had been serving on a Jewish agenda, he was relatively fortunate in his portrayal, as other posters in the same series depict their subjects - especially the Jewish ones - as snakes, apes, cows, frogs, and flies...among others. Laminated on the verso, slight wrinkles, tiny spots of foxing at bottom, minor loss to the bottom right corner, else fine condition.