Creator

Couturier

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Creation Date

ca. 1900

Medium

Lithograph (?)

Dimensions

With frame: 10 1/4 × 12 7/8 × 1/2 in (26 × 32.7 × 1.3 cm)

Credit Line

Long-term Loan from the Estate of Boris Blick, 2015

Accession Number

2015.95

Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

Upper left: "No 8," center, slightly to the right, "HISTOIRE D'UN CRIME / Par COUTURIER"

Block of text, lower left: "Crime, men- / songe,infamie! / " L' amorce / prime le droit! " / Les artificiers de l'Etat-Major pilèrent en leur / mortier des fuses crachantes. / Mercier n'était pas anthropophage, mais néan- / moins il avalait chaque matin son petit kilogramme de moules. / C'était du Paty de Clam qui se chargeait du / menu quotidien qu'il commandait au gluant / Drumont qui était alors le bi-choux de Bruxelles. / L'arrestation de Dreyfus avait été tenue secrète, / Du Paty la fit révéler au public par la Libre-Parole!!! / " Mercier est complice de Dreyfus, Mercier est un / espion prussien ", disait la feuille d'Odelin le jésuite. / Menacé d'être foudroyé sous ce bombardement ; / Mercier parlementa ! .... Le 22 décembre 1894, / Dreyfus fut condamné à la déportation perpétuelle / dans une enceinte fortifiée et à la dégradation / militaire !"

Right image, lower left corner: "Couturier" [signature]

Description

Political cartoon in which a man's face is shown through a spider web observing people taking notes at a crime scene, with text below him.

The print references the Dreyfus affair, which took place between 1894 and 1906 and revolved around the debate of whether or not Alfred Dreyfus, a French military officer who allegedly sold military secrets to the Germans, was guilty of the treason for which he was convicted.

According to Professor Sarah Blick, the print comes from a 19th-century newspaper/magazine regarding the Dreyfus Affair, something her father (Boris Blick) was deeply interested in and affected by.

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