Henri de Rothschild, en porc conduisant une automobile. No. 47. Original lithograph from the Anti-Dreyfusard series "Musée des Horreurs."

Beschreibung

Handcolored lithograph. 65.2 x 50 cm. Unmounted, marginal tears and creasing with small loss. Caricature of Henry James de Rothschild (1872-1947) as a pig driving a car. Henry was a member of the prominent Rothschild family of Jewish financiers that became easy targets for anti-semitic outrage during the Dreyfus Affair even though they had little or no direct involvement. Henri de Rothschild, en porc conduisant une automobile, déclare : « Je crois que je viens encore d'écraser quelqu'un. Baste! Je ferai payer ça par La Libre Parole ». Un fiacre ayant été tamponné par un véhicule appartenant à Henri de Rothschild (mais conduit par son chauffeur), Édouard Drumont et son journaliste Raphaël Viau ont essayé d'exploiter l'accident dans La Libre Parole. Les auteurs de cette campagne diffamatoire sont condamnés à 10 000 francs de dommages-intérêts chacun au début du mois d'août.The story of Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish officer in the French army is widely known. Falsely accused of treason for selling military secrets to Germany and convicted of treason by a secret military commission, Dreyfus was stripped of his rank and imprisoned on Devils' Island. It was only after the affair had dragged on for a dozen years that Dreyfus was finally cleared of all charges by the court of appeals. French society was deeply divided by the Dreyfus case and hostile rhetoric led to widespread anti-Semitic expression in the popular press. This scarce series of intensely provocative color lithographs was only one example of the virulent reaction to the Dreyfus Affair. The identity of the artist who signed each of the drawings (in the plates) is unknown beyond the pseudonym of V. Lenepveu. It is probable that the series was promulgated by Léon Hayard, the independent publisher who distributed a wide variety of anti-Dreyfus material including posters, pamphlets and even knick-knacks. In addition to provocative images of Alfred Dreyfus and Emile Zola, the journalist who took up Dreyfus' cause and penned the famous missive J'accuse, the remaining caricatures by Lenepveu excoriate a variety of prominent Dreyfusards, Republican statesmen and Jews, including no fewer than eight separate representations of members of the prominent Jewish Rothschild family. The publication of Musée des Horreurs was halted by the police after 51 numbers had been published.

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Bibliografische Details

Titel

Henri de Rothschild, en porc conduisant une automobile. No. 47. Original lithograph from the Anti-Dreyfusard series "Musée des Horreurs."

Verlag

Paris: Imp. Lenepveu.

Erscheinungsjahr

1900

Zustand

Good

Signiert

Signatur des Verfassers

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• Prints- French