- 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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