Art, literature & history
"Les Maris me font toujours rire" (Husbands Always Make Me Laugh)
1852/1853
- Dating
- Date range
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- 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.)
- Collection no.
- 1994.60.19
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Paul Gavarni. "Les Maris me font toujours rire" (Husbands Always Make Me Laugh). Paul Gavarni; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Paul_Gavarni,_%22Les_Maris_me_font_toujours_rire%22_(Husbands_Always_Make_Me_Laugh),_1852-1853,_NGA_79368.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
"Les Maris me font toujours rire" (Husbands Always Make Me Laugh) — Paul Gavarni. 1852/1853.
Medium: lithograph in black on wove paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): 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.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1994.60.19. Gift of Ruth B. Benedict.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.