Victor LENEPVEU (19th-20th) - Lot 257

Victor LENEPVEU (19th-20th) Le Musée des Horreurs (Affaire DREYFUS), 1899-1900, Paris, Impr. Lenepveu rue Dulong, publisher Léon Hayard, Paris. Collection of 25 color lithographed posters, size 65 x 50 cm, in sheets, signed. - N°1 : Joseph Reinach - N°3: Louis Lépine - N°4: Emile Zola - N°5: Fernand Labori - N°7: Zadoc Kahn - N°8: Colonel Marie-Georges Picquart - N°10: Georges Clémenceau - N°11: Caroline Rémy dite Séverine - N°12: Henri Maret - N°15: Henri Brisson - N°16: Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau - N°17: General de Galliffet - N°18: Ludovic Trarieux - N°21: Théophile Delcassé - N°22: Ernest Monis - N°23: Minister of Marine Lanessan - N°24: Isidore-René Jacob-Paquin - N°25: Auguste Thomas - N°26: A ball at the Elysée Palace - N°30: Emile Loubet, le Châtiment - N°31: Emile Loubet - N°32: Jude Philipp - N°33: Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau - N°34: Joseph Reinach - N°35: The Traitor Enclosed is a poster from the Musée des Patriotes: n°1 Tirez Lâches !!! This collection was loaned to the Musée de Bretagne in 2010. Very fragile paper, frayed edges, tears and missing parts. Victor Lenepveu's large-scale anti-Dreyfus cartoons in full color form the fearsome "Museum of Horrors". In their color, obscenity and cruelty, the Musée des Horreurs posters reach a peak of abjection. Rarely equaled in violence, these caricatures are all the more effective because the faces of the personalities depicted are identifiable at first glance. Rarely has anti-Semitic hatred reached such heights in France, and never has it found a more effective illustrator than Victor Lenepveu, whose images are all the more terrifying for their remarkable caricature and impressive format.