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Pietri La Mouche (Ruses-Espionage)

Print
1870-1871 (printed)
Artist/Maker
Hadol, Paul (caricaturist)
Coulboeuf (printer)
Place of origin
Paris (printed)

Satirical print with a depiction of Emile Joseph-Marie Piétri as a fly. Print from a set of caricatures, broadsheets and illustrations in ten volumes. Each volume is half-bound in red leather, gold tooled and stamped with imperial emblems, title etc.


Object details

Categories
Prints
Caricatures & Cartoons
Object type
Print
Titles
  • Pietri La Mouche (Ruses-Espionage) (assigned by artist)
  • La Ménagerie Impériale (series title)
Materials and techniques
Hand-coloured lithograph on paper
Paper
Lithography
Hand-Colouring
Brief description
'Pietri La Mouche (Ruses-Espionage)'. Satirical illustration by Paul Hadol with a depiction of Emile Joseph-Marie Piétri as a fly. Hand-coloured lithograph, France, 1870-1871.
Physical description
Satirical print with a depiction of Emile Joseph-Marie Piétri as a fly. Print from a set of caricatures, broadsheets and illustrations in ten volumes. Each volume is half-bound in red leather, gold tooled and stamped with imperial emblems, title etc.
Dimensions
  • Height: 21.9cm
  • Width: 12cm
Dimensions from: Lambert, Susan. The Franco-Prussian War and The Commune in Caricature 1870-71. catalogue of a collection of prints in the possession of the Department of Prints and Drawings of the Victoria and Albert Museum. London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1971.
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'La Ménagerie Impériale. Pietri La Mouche (Ruses-Espionage) Au Bureau des Annonces, 11, rue Taitbout Imp. Coulboeuf, Paris.' (Lettered)
  • 'No. 14' (Numbered)
  • 'Chef Des Blouses Blanches' (Lettered within the design)
  • 'H' (Signed)
Gallery label
PAUL HADOL (1835-75) Joseph-Marie Piétri (1820-1902) was Chief of the hated Police Force from 1866. He is represented as a fly because of the similarity in the sound and character between the words 'mouche', a fly and 'mouchard', a police spy. During the last years of the Empire he planted false workmen in all forms of industry. They became known as 'les blouses blanches'. Lithograph, coloured by hand. From a series of 32. E.295-1962(27/05/1971-10/10/1971)
Historical context
Joseph-Marie Piétri (1820-1902) was Chief of the hated Police Force from 1866. He is represented as a fly because of the similarity in the sound and character between the words mouche, a fly and mouchard, a police spy. During the last years of the Empire he planted false workmen in all forms of industry. They became known as les blouses blanches.
Subjects depicted
Caricatures
Flies
Piétri, Joseph-Marie
Bibliographic references
  • Lambert, Susan, The Franco-Prussian War and The Commune in Caricature 1870-71: catalogue of a collection of prints in the possession of the Department of Prints and Drawings of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, V&A, 1971
  • Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1962. London: HMSO, 1964.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.295-1962

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Record createdJanuary 28, 2009
Record URL
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