Le Ventre Législatif (The Legislative Belly), 1834

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Medium

lithograph on wove paper

Dimensions

overall: 34.9 x 52.6 cm (13 3/4 x 20 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Lloyd Cutler and Polly Kraft, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art

Catalogue Raisonné

Delteil, no. 131, State (a proof before the regular issue)

Accession Number

1991.229.1

Artists / Makers

Honoré Daumier (artist) French, 1808 - 1879

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right plate: h. Daumier; lower center plate: LE VENTRE LEGISLATIF. / Aspect des bancs ministériels de la chambre improstituée de 1834.; lower left plate: Chez Aubert, galerie vére dodat.; lower right plate: L.de Becquet, rue furstemberg 6.; upper left plate: 18.e Dessin de l'association mensuelle (mois de Janvier)

Exhibition History

1984: Master Prints from Washington Private Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994, no. 36.

1992: Dürer to Diebenkorn: Recent Acquisitions of Art of Paper, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1992, no. 53.

Bibliography

1906: Delteil, Loys. Le peintre-graveur illustre. 31 vols. Paris: Published by the author, 1906-1926. Reprint. New York: Collectors Editions, Da Capo Press, 1969. Vol. 30 (Albert Besnard) is by Louis Godefroy.

1996: Hults, Linda C. The Print in the Western World. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996, 448-449; fig. 8.20, 449.

1997: Richler, Martha. National Gallery of Art, Washington: A World of Art. London, 1997: 121, fig. 19.