Georgette. No. 8. (Le colonel Marie-Georges Picquart en dromadaire.) Original lithograph from the Anti-Dreyfusard series "Musée des Horreurs."

Lenepveu, V; Auguste-Victor Lenepveu (author); Alfred Dreyfus, (subject).

Verlag: Paris: Imp. Lenepveu, Dec. 1899.

Beschreibung

Handcolored lithograph. 63.5 x 49 cm. Mounted on Pearl Linen, a polycotton blend fabric with an aqueous acrylic coating. Repaired tears in blank areas.CCaricature of Georges Picquart (1854-1914) as a camel. Picquart was chief of the army intelligence section in 1896 and after he refused to conceal his discovery that the memo used to convict Dreyfus was a forgery, he was relieved of his command and sent to Tunisia.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. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 16-4130

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Georgette. No. 8. (Le colonel Marie-Georges ...

Verlag: Paris: Imp. Lenepveu, Dec. 1899.

Zustand: Good

Signiert: Signatur des Verfassers