Nationality
French
Artist Dates
1808-1879
Title of Work
Preview
Date of Work
1851
Medium
Lithograph
Signature
Initialed in the lithographic stone.
Identification #
2016.001.1163
Collection/Provenance
Gift from the estate of Lilly Jacobson.
University Art Collections: Lilly Jacobson Collection, Art & Design Dept.
Status
Displayed: Second Floor, near the Fredrikson & Byron Law Firm Office suite
Location
UND School of Law
Additional Information
Series: Actualités
Published in Le Charivari
Original text: Décidément elle est bien malade!
On May 31, 1850, the French National Assembly passed a law to end universal male suffrage, which had been put in place by the Second Republic Constitution in 1848.
Public reaction to the new law, which eliminated nearly a third of France’s eligible voters, led to violent protests that threatened to overturn it. Daumier portrays the law’s chief supporter, Marie Joseph Louis Adolphe Thiers (1797-1877), as a physician checking the pulse of a young girl who personifies the May 31 law.
Included in the Honoré Daumier III: Law, Medicine, and Social Satire exhibition, 2018.