"Les Maris me font toujours rire" (Husbands Always Make Me Laugh)
Paul Gavarni
1852/1853
Medium
lithograph in black on wove paper
Dimensions
image: 19.1 x 16.3 cm (7 1/2 x 6 7/16 in.) sheet: 35.5 x 26.3 cm (14 x 10 3/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Ruth B. Benedict
Accession Number
1994.60.19
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...