That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for October 01, 2018

“No, I don’t know where your wife is. I’ve been busy painting all day.”

“Just a moment, Mr. Weinstein.”

“What do you mean my wife left me? She’s been sitting in that corner for days… Ohhh”

When stand up comedians get desperate.

Football club owners “overseeing” the creation of the 1822 cheerleaders calendar.

And then I invented the klieg light, which made me a ton of money, so now I can indulge my other love – painting modern men in classical dress.

At this pace, this year’s high school yearbook, will be ready next year.

Don’t you think it is a good thing the painting doesn’t look like your wife?

Girodet Painting “Pygmalion and Galatea” In the Presence of Sommariva: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Girodet_peignant_%C2%ABPygmalion_et_Galat%C3%A9e%C2%BB_en_pr%C3%A9sence_de_Sommariva_(Dejuinne).jpg 

(best viewed by Google Chrome which can automatically translate most pages as necessary) has info and links that point to info about this roughly B2 paper size painting.

https://lanouvelleathenes.fr/francois-louis-dejuinne-1786-1844/ 

has sparse French (again, Chrome can automatically translate) info about this artist, perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the first URL. Other than his lifespan, and that he studied under Girodet (the artist featured last Tuesday, 9/25), I couldn’t find much (that Chrome could translate) about him; perhaps those who read French can find more. This is the first work by him used here.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2050 (September 30, 2018) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

“OK, miss…. I’ve finished painting you. Gentlemen if you would disrobe and take your places……”

You know how a watched pot never boils? Well, the longer you stare the longer it will take me.

What the heck is going on here? What is he supposed to be painting?

“Art patrons? Us? Nahhh…we’re just here to look at the naked models!”