Victor LENEPVEU (Théophile DELCASSÉ)
[AFFAIRE DREYFUS] Musée des horreurs - Affiche originale lithographiée en couleurs - n°21 "Del-Lâchoda devant l'Angleterre 11xbre 1898"
Imprimerie Lenepveu|Paris s. d. [mars 1900]|49.80 x 65.20 cm|une affiche
Original lithographed color poster depicting Théophile Delcassé as a circus poodle.
Transverse folds and minor marginal tears without loss.
Distributed between October 1899 and December 1900 in a France inflamed by the Dreyfus Affair, these immense color caricature portraits are the work of Victor Lenepveu who announced the publication of 150 then 200 drawings and ultimately produced only about fifty. Despite the 1881 press freedom law allowing the distribution of politically subversive imagery, the publication of this nightmarish pantheon was interrupted by order of the Ministry of the Interior.
The fragility of the paper and the imposing format of these extremel
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