MUSEE DES HORREURS / BARON ALPHONSE

Sale 2104 Lot 71

V. LENEPVEU MUSEE DES HORREURS / BARON ALPHONSE. Circa 1900.
25 1/2x19 1/2 inches. Lenepveu, Paris.
Condition B+: areas of restored loss in right margin and image.
Alphonse Rothschild, portrayed as half human, half monster is counting a chest full of golden coins in this advertisement for the Museum of Horrors. This series (originally 51 images) is nothing more than crude and viscious anti-semitism in the wake of the Dreyfus trial in France. The people lambasted by the bigotted caricaturist include prominent French Jews, including the five Rothschild brothers and their wives, Alfred Dreyfus, politicians involved in the Dreyfus Affair, ministers and financiers invloved in the Panama Canal scandal, and French politicians. DFP-II 518ff.
Estimate $800-1,200