Traître - the traitor. Poster No. 35 from the Musée des Horreurs series ["Monsters Exhibition" / "Museum of Horrors"]. Paris, [1899-1900]. French. Hand-painted lithographic print, depicting Alfred Dreyfus with a piece of paper on his shirt and the inscription: "Traitre" [traitor, French]. Hanging on a rope against the background of the rising sun, the detail of the year appears: 1900, signed in print V. Lenepveu. The proclamation was issued in June 1900, and was entitled: Amnistie populaire! - Popular pardon! Refers to the pardon law passed by senators on June 2nd.
The series "Monsters Exhibition" was published during the Dreyfus affair under a pseudonym, and included 51 large posters with anti-Dreyfus illustrations, antisemitic, and against the "Bonim". The series was published in France over a period of about a year, between October 1899 and December 1900. The original plan was to issue 200 Posters in the series, but in fact only 51 came out. The first posters in the series sold over 300,000 copies. In October 1899 the French police arrested a number of peddlers who sold posters from the series on the orders of District Commander Louis Lapin. According to some reports, Lapin ordered the distribution of posters to be stopped following a request he received from Baron de Rothschild, who claimed that the damage in distributing them was irreversible. In February 1900 the local police sent letters in which they threatened to revoke the trade license from Merchants who would sell the posters, and since then their distribution has stopped.
65X50 cm. Slight tears in margins. Good condition.
