Author: Lenepveu, V; Auguste-Victor Lenepveu (author); Alfred Dreyfus (1859-1935 - subject)
Title: Ministre Et Traître. No. 23. (le Ministre de la Marine Lanessan, En Poisson . ) Original Lithograph from the Anti-Dreyfusard Series "Musée Des Horreurs.
Description: Paris: Imp. Lenepveu, 1900. Handcolored lithograph. 65.2 x 50 cm. Mounted on board. Some foxing and marginal tears. Caricature of Jean Marie Antoine de Lanessan (1843-1919) as a sea creature holding a letter. Lanessan was a naturalist and Minister of Marine in the Waldeck-Rousseau cabinet (1899-1902).. Si Lanessan ne joua qu'un rôle effacé dans l'Affaire Dreyfus, il n'en fut pas moins un dreyfusard bon teint. En 1897, il fut l'un des premiers, avec Clemenceau et Gabriel Monod, à apporter son soutien à Scheurer-Kestner. Lors d'un dîner, chez lui, le capitaine Martin Freystaetter, l'un des juges du premier conseil de guerre, fit part de son trouble concernant la condamnation de Dreyfus. Le 7 juillet 1898, pourtant, avec l'ensemble des députés, Lanessan se prononça pour l'affichage du discours du ministre de la guerre, Cavaignac, qui croyait avoir démontré de manière irréfutable, à l'aide de ce que l'on ne savait pas encore être le faux Henry, la culpabilité de Dreyfus... 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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Title: Ministre Et Traître. No. 23. (le Ministre de la Marine Lanessan, En Poisson . ) Original Lithograph from the Anti-Dreyfusard Series "Musée Des Horreurs.
Description: Paris: Imp. Lenepveu, 1900. Handcolored lithograph. 65.2 x 50 cm. Mounted on board. Some foxing and marginal tears. Caricature of Jean Marie Antoine de Lanessan (1843-1919) as a sea creature holding a letter. Lanessan was a naturalist and Minister of Marine in the Waldeck-Rousseau cabinet (1899-1902).. Si Lanessan ne joua qu'un rôle effacé dans l'Affaire Dreyfus, il n'en fut pas moins un dreyfusard bon teint. En 1897, il fut l'un des premiers, avec Clemenceau et Gabriel Monod, à apporter son soutien à Scheurer-Kestner. Lors d'un dîner, chez lui, le capitaine Martin Freystaetter, l'un des juges du premier conseil de guerre, fit part de son trouble concernant la condamnation de Dreyfus. Le 7 juillet 1898, pourtant, avec l'ensemble des députés, Lanessan se prononça pour l'affichage du discours du ministre de la guerre, Cavaignac, qui croyait avoir démontré de manière irréfutable, à l'aide de ce que l'on ne savait pas encore être le faux Henry, la culpabilité de Dreyfus... 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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- Book number: 16-3750
- Book number: 16-3750
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