1834
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Dominant colour
The Legislative Belly is a 1834 by Honoré Daumier, a Romanticism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This painting shows a group of people in a meeting. It looks like they're discussing something serious. The details in this work are interesting, like the expressions on their faces. The scene is set in a formal room, with the people seated. This gives a sense of importance to the meeting. To learn more, look up the technique of sfumato.
This print was published as plate 18 from The Monthly Association ( l’Association Mensuelle pour la Liberté de la Presse ), a special edition of La Caricature.
Read the full account in the museum source.
Honoré-Victorin Daumier was a French painter, sculptor, and printmaker, whose many works offer commentary on the social and political life in France, from the Revolution of 1830 to the fall of the Second French Empire in 1870.
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