V. Lenepveu, No. 5 Trou de Balle, Hand-colored lithograph on paper, 1899-1900
Artist/Maker:
V. Lenepveu
Bio:
French, active late 19th century
Title:
No. 5 Trou de Balle
Portfolio/Series:
Musée des Horreurs
Date:
1899-1900
Medium:
Hand-colored lithograph on paper
Dimensions:
25 1/2 × 20 in. (64 3/4 × 50 13/16 cm)
Credit Line:
Gift of Dr. Harry G. Friedman
Accession Number:
U 7881

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Musée des horreurs is a series of fifty-one political posters defaming prominent statesmen, journalists, Jews, and supporters of Alfred Dreyfus. The posters began appearing weekly following Dreyfus’s retrial in the fall of 1899. The series was stopped by order of the French Ministry of the Interior about one year later. The distinguished criminal lawyer, Fernand Labori, here caricatured as a donkey, defended Dreyfus and Zola at their respective trials. The title of the print, Bullet Hole, refers to the attempt on Labori’s life in Rennes in 1899 when he acted as counsel to Dreyfus.

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