Husbands Always Make Me Laugh: It's hard to believe
Paul Gavarni
1852
Medium
Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 19.3 × 16.2 cm (7 5/8 × 6 7/16 in.); Sheet: 35.2 × 26.4 cm (13 7/8 × 10 7/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
11079
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Paul Gavarni · 1804–1866
Paul Gavarni, born Sulpice Guillaume Chevalier on January 13, 1804, in Paris to a cooper father from Burgundy and mother Marie-Monique Thiémet—whose brother, painter Guillaume Thiémet, served as his godfather—began his career far from the art world. As a youth, he worked in a machine factory and studied mechanical drawing at the Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers in 1818, followed by evening classe...