Paul Gavarni created this elegant, meticulous drawing around 1855, illustrating a song on marital infidelity by the playwright and novelist Alexandre Dumas fils. Highly critical of Napoleon III’s authoritarian regime, Gavarni, like, Dumas fils, used family and domestic themes as metaphors to expose larger social ills. Here, he unleashes his wit on a man in oriental costume leering at a woman outside the picture frame. His sword dangles suggestively between his legs as he bellows, “Goddamn! Madame, do you have a husband?”