Le ventre législatif: Aspect des bancs ministériels de la chambre improstituée de 1834, Honoré Daumier, January 1834
Le ventre législatif: Aspect des bancs ministériels de la chambre improstituée de 1834, January 1834, Lithograph, image: 11 1/8 x 17 1/8 in. ( x cm), Prints, Honoré Daumier (French, Marseilles 1808–1879 Valmondois), Daumier, one of the nineteenth century's great caricaturists, was prolific as a pointed political satirist until complete censorship of such subjects was imposed by the government in 1835. In this lithograph, he ridiculed the conservative members of the Chamber of Deputies—all recognizable to his contemporaries—for their arrogance and corruption, depicting them as bloated and dozing
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