La Casserole de Fontainebleau. (Le capitaine Adrien Coblentz en lièvre) No. 49. Original lithograph from the Anti-Dreyfusard series "Musée des Horreurs."

Lenepveu, V; Auguste-Victor Lenepveu (author); Alfred Dreyfus (1859-1935 - subject).

Published by Paris: Imp. Lenepveu., 1900

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Handcolored lithograph. 65.2 x 50 cm. Unmounted, marginal tears and creasing with small loss. Caricature of Adrien Coblentz (1866-1928) as a dog sitting in a large cooking pot. He was another Jewish officer maligned by the French military.L'Affaire CoblentzConnait-on l'affaire Coblentz qui, en 1900, remplit pendant quelques semaines les colonnes des journaux et inspira à Lenepveu le n° 49 de son Musée des horreurs Le capitaine Adrien Coblentz (d) (1866-1928), en lièvre à la queue coupée (allusion à la circoncision) chevauchant une casserole (voir no 40). Le 10 octobre, le général André fait déplacer plusieurs officiers antisémites de l'École d'application de l'artillerie de Fontainebleau qui avaient manifesté de la défiance à l'encontre de Coblentz. Le 13 octobre, le commandant de l'École, le général Perboyre, est mis en disponibilité.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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Bibliographic Details

• Title: La Casserole de Fontainebleau. (Le capitaine Adrien Coblentz en lièvre) No. 49. Original lithograph from the Anti-Dreyfusard series "Musée des Horreurs."
• Publisher: Paris: Imp. Lenepveu.
• Publication Date: 1900
• Condition: Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
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