Satiric French print of a Jewish peddler selling relics
Extent and Medium
overall: Height: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm) | Width: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm)
Creator(s)
- Peter Ehrenthal (Compiler)
- Henri Daniel Plattel (Artist)
- Aubert & Cie (Printer)
Biographical History
The Katz Ehrenthal Collection is a collection of more than 900 objects depicting Jews and antisemitic and anti-Jewish propaganda from the medieval to the modern era, in Europe, Russia, and the United States. The collection was amassed by Peter Ehrenthal, a Romanian Holocaust survivor, to document the pervasive history of anti-Jewish hatred in Western art, politics and popular culture. It includes crude folk art as well as pieces created by Europe's finest craftsmen, prints and periodical illustrations, posters, paintings, decorative art, and toys and everyday household items decorated with depictions of stereotypical Jewish figures.
Archival History
The print was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2016 by the Katz Family.
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Katz Family
Funding Note: The cataloging of this artifact has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Scope and Content
Lithograph by Henri Daniel Plattel of a Jewish peddler selling relics to a man with a Napoleonic military eagle tattoo. It was published in Miroir caricatural, a popular 19th century French series. This color print is one of more than 900 items in the Katz Ehrenthal Collection of antisemitic visual materials.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Hand colored lithograph of a stereotypical Jewish peddler with a disappointed expression offering relics for sale to a man in a work apron, holding a mallet and showing a tattoo of a crowned eagle, military emblem of Napoleon, on his inner forearm.
Subjects
- Antisemitism--France--19th century.
- France--Politics and government--1870-1940--Caricatures and cartoons.
- Antisemitism in art--France--19th century.
- Satire, French--19th century.
- Anti-Jewish propaganda--France--19th century.
- Jews--Caricatures and cartoons--France.
Genre
- Object
- Art