Le ventre législatif, 1834

  • Imprimerie de Becquet
  • Honoré Daumier, French, 1808-1879

Lithograph printed in black ink on wove paper

  • Image: 11 × 17 1/8 inches (27.9 × 43.5 cm) Sheet: 13 7/8 × 20 5/8 inches (35.2 × 52.4 cm)

City of Detroit Purchase

21.116

On View

  • Era of Revolution, Level 3, South

Department

Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Signed, on stone, lower right: h. Daumier

Inscribed, on stone, lower center: LE VENTRE LEGISLATIF. | Aspect des bancs ministériels de la chambre improstituée de 1834. Inscribed, upper left: 18e. Dessin de l'association mensuelle (mois de janvier) Inscribed, lower left: Chez Aubert, galerie vero dodat. Inscribed, lower right: L. de Becquet, rue furstemberg 6.

1921-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Honoré Daumier, Le ventre législatif, 1834, lithograph printed in black ink on wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 21.116.