That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for November 16, 2017

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    BE THIS GUY  almost 7 years ago

    “I think I would look better in black.”

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    Bilan  almost 7 years ago

    While the push-up bra has always been a big seller, the push-up girdle didn’t last very long.

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    orinoco womble  almost 7 years ago

    She’s not pale because she never goes outside…she’s pale because her girdle’s too tight to draw a breath.

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    Arianne  almost 7 years ago

    Slowly, Miss Lightening Rod of 1795 began to realize that she was not really all that sure of the old adage, that lightening never strikes the same place twice.

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    J Short  almost 7 years ago

    Cher, after finding Jesus, became embarrassed about her tattoos.

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    aerotica69  almost 7 years ago

    Dee Snider’s hair guru.

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    Linguist  almost 7 years ago

    Early Sonny & Cher poster.

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    rugeirn  almost 7 years ago

    Be This Guy has it right: Francesco de Goya’s portrait of the same woman, María Cayetana de Silva, 13th Duchess of Alba, dressed in black, is much more interesting and sexier too.

    This painter, not to be confused with the far better and much more famous Goya, Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, was commissioned to do a set of life-size portraits of the Dukes of Alba.

    Historian Janis Tomlinston wrote in 1994 that “no matter how liberal a patron she might have been, it seems unlikely that she would have accepted a portrait that so mercilessly emphasized her pride and hauteur”. So Melcher has the caption about right too!

    There are good Wikipedia articles on the painter and on the paintings as well, from which I pulled the above info.

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    Ratbrat  almost 7 years ago

    " That’s my last duchess, painted with a ball…and dog"

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    Radish the wordsmith  almost 7 years ago

    Thanks for the birthday present, can’t wait to unwrap it.

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    mabrndt Premium Member almost 7 years ago

    The Duchess of Alba

    https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Francisco_de_Goya_y_Lucientes_-_The_Duchess_of_Alba_-_WGA10020.jpg 

    (best viewed by Google Chrome – can translate pages if necessary) has info and links that point to info about this painting.

     

    http://www.all-art.org/history372-5.html 

    has extensive info about this artist (click his name link for the start of 20+ pages, showing works by him and other info). So far, 4 works by him have been used here.

     

    http://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2014/01/10?comments=visible 

    has the prior work (which, sadly, still has the 19 hyperlinks in my comment there, inactive @#$%&!).

     

    Again, a larger strip image is shown by clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #1826 (November 15, 2017) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment; so, I won’t point to it here.

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    mabrndt Premium Member almost 7 years ago

    @Rugiern: not to be confused with … ??? 

    Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes is this artist (duh!). 

    https://www.museodelprado.es/en/the-collection/art-work/the-naked-maja/65953b93-323e-48fe-98cb-9d4b15852b18

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    pcolli  almost 7 years ago

    The latest addition to the Barbie range.

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    lagoulou  almost 7 years ago

    There is only one Goya….and he and the Duchess had a long term love affair. He did many portraits of her, the most famous of which is called The Naked Maja.

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    Call me Ishmael  almost 7 years ago

    Goya’s reply: “I’ll get you, and your little dog, too!”

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