Le ventre legislatif: Aspect des bancs ministeriels de la chambre improstituee de 1834, January 1834, Lithograph, image: 11 1/8 x 17 1/8 in. (28. 2 x 43. 5 cm), Prints, Honore 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