Chamber of Representatives in Brussels. Belgium. Netherlands. 1844.Print from steel engraving titled „Chambre des representants a Bruxelles“.From Belgique et Hollande, par Andre Henri Constant van Hasselt, Paris, Firmin Didot Freres, 1844.Notes: Belgique. Lemaitre direxit. 56. The Chamber of Representatives is one of the two chambers in the bicameral Federal Parliament of Belgium, the other being the Senate. It is considered to be the "lower house" of the Federal Parliament. The Chamber of Representatives holds its plenary meetings in the Palace of the Nation, Brussels. The Palace of the Nation was built to a Neoclassical design by French architect Gilles-Barnabé Guimard from 1779 to 1783 and includes sculptures by Gilles-Lambert Godecharle. Under Austrian rule it housed the Sovereign Council of Brabant before being used as a courthouse during the French period. During the Dutch period it was one of two homes of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, the other being in the Hague. The provisional Government of Belgium and the Belgian National Congress moved into the building in 1830 and the first session of the House of Representatives and Senate was held there a year later. It stands near the site of the former palace of the Dukes of Brabant, which was destroyed by fire in 1731, and has itself been badly damaged by fire, in 1820 and 1883.Approx. image size 13, 8 x 9/20, 7 x 12, 8 cm.

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