Feb 12, 2015 - Sale 2373

Sale 2373 - Lot 347

Unsold
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
V. LENEPVEU (DATES UNKNOWN) MUSÉE DES HORREURS. Group of 6 posters. Circa 1900.
Each 25x19 inches, 65x49 cm. Lenepveu, Paris.
Condition varies, generally B+: mounted on board.
The so-called Museum of Horrors was a series of 51 crude and vicious anti-Semitic posters in the wake of the Dreyfus trial in France. The people lambasted by the bigoted caricaturist include prominent French Jews, such as the five Rothschild brothers and their wives, Alfred Dreyfus, politicians involved in the Dreyfus Affair, ministers and financiers involved in the Panama Canal scandal and French politicians. Group includes numbers 29, 43, 47, 37, 33, 21 and 31.