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Credit: Henri C. R. Presseq, published by Imp. P. Dupont. Restored by Adam Cuerden.
Poster for the 1900 première of Camille Erlanger's opera Le Juif polonais starring Victor Maurel as the innkeeper Mathias. A melodramatic climax occurs in act 2 when the sound of sleigh bells at his daughter's wedding reminds Mathias of the Jew he had murdered 15 years ago.