Caricature of a Jewish peddler making a deal with a Gentile customer
Extent and Medium
overall: Height: 13.500 inches (34.29 cm) | Width: 11.125 inches (28.258 cm)
Creator(s)
- Jean Frédéric Wentzel (Artist)
- Peter Ehrenthal (Compiler)
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
Color lithograph, Der Handel [The Trade] of a Jewish peddler negotiating with a non-Jewish man, made in Wissembourg, also known as Weissenburg, in the Alsatian region, then part of Germany, but now France. This 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 on paper of a Jewish peddler negotiating with a non-Jewish man.
Subjects
- Jews--Germany--18th century--Portraits.
- Jewish peddlers--Germany--18th century--Pictorial works.
- Stereotypes (Social psychology) in art.
- Jews in art--Germany--18th century--Portraits.
- Antisemitism in art--Germany--18th century--Pictorial works.
Genre
- Art
- Object