Comic color drawing of a Jewish peddler arguing with a woman
Extent and Medium
overall: Height: 9.000 inches (22.86 cm) | Width: 12.000 inches (30.48 cm)
Creator(s)
- 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 painting 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
19th century watercolor drawing depicting an unpleasant looking Jewish peddler arguing with a farmwife while two boys steal money from the back of his wagon. The painting is one of more than 900 items in the Katz Ehrenthal Collection of antisemitic artifacts and visual materials.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Drawing in watercolor on paper depicting a Jewish peddler seated in his wagon arguing with a farmwife. He has an extremely large curved nose, red fleshy lips, curly sidelocks and beard, and wears a crumpled black top hat, jacket, and trousers. He holds up 2 fingers of his left hand and gestures at a filled bowl held by a barefoot woman in a red kerchief and blue dress talking to him with an angry expression. The peddler's wooden rack wagon is filled with sacks. At the back are 2 boys: 1 is perched on the wagon rim and is throwing coins from a box in the wagon which the other boy is catching in a bowl. A skinny horse is hitched to the wagon front. In the background is a hill with 2 houses and another woman walking down a pathway.
Subjects
- Anti-Jewish propaganda--Hungary-History--19th century--Pictorial works.
- Jews--Hungary--Caricatures and cartoons--History--19th century.
- Antisemitism--Hungary--History--19th century.
- Antisemitism in art--Hungary--19th century.
- Jews in art.
- Jewish peddlers--Hungary--History--19th century--Pictorial works.
Genre
- Art
- Object