A bourgeois wife shows her husband the preserved foetus of her cousin. Wood engraving by F. Rouget after S.G.C. Gavarni.

A manacled prisoner is stripped to the waist and restrained by prison warders while he is beaten with a lash. Wood engraving by F. Rouget after J. Noel and Rambert.

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Rouget, Francois, approximately 1825-

Images from the collections

Images by Rouget, Francois, approximately 1825-

Works from the collections

A bourgeois wife shows her husband the preserved foetus of her cousin. Wood engraving by F. Rouget after S.G.C. Gavarni.

A manacled prisoner is stripped to the waist and restrained by prison warders while he is beaten with a lash. Wood engraving by F. Rouget after J. Noel and Rambert.