That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for September 11, 2018

Gerard was always on the look out for recently widowed wealthy women in need of comforting.

“I know you are the last man on Earth, but I’m still not going to go out with you.”

“I’m leaning on the lamppost at the corner of the street in case a certain little lady comes by.”

An alternate picture source:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Paintings_of_Paris_by_Jean_B%C3%A9raud

www.flickr.com/photos/lespetitescases/17032064055/

… Czarka

“Tall and tan and young and lovely, the girl from Ipanema” is about to get a jaywalking ticket.

Hmm, Someone trying to horn my corner. Guess I’ll have to cut him.

The street seems to be the main interest in the painting, not the people. Of course humans are notoriously hard to paint, let alone draw.

Winslow AZ.

“Just because the artist drops by, they decide to clean the street.”

The minute I step out, those boy racers will come screeching along

Guy wondering, is a black widow crossing his path bad luck.

Eliza always chose clothes that would stand out in her surroundings.

Ithink he is a cop." Is that a nightstick you’re holding or do you love me?"

Love and courtship in the age of the black death.

“Well,if I avoid the dog droppings on the sidewalk, I’ll probably step in the horse manure in the street…decisions,decisions…”

“Gosh, it’s hard to find a cab in this part of town”

The Wait or Waiting, Rue de Chateaubriand: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jean_B%C3%A9raud_The_Wait.jpg 

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

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/beraud_jean.html 

http://www.artnet.com/artists/jean-b%C3%A9raud/ 

https://www.wga.hu/bio_m/b/beraud/biograph.html 

http://www.all-art.org/DICTIONARY_of_Art/b/Beraud1.htm 

http://www.rehs.com/Jean_Beraud_Bio.html 

http://hoocher.com/Jean_Beraud/Jean_Beraud.htm 

all have info about this artist, perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the first URL. So far, 10 works by him have been used here (with 1 repeated as a Classic, and now this repeated with a different caption). 

http://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2018/02/02?comments=visible 

has the prior strip (my comment there used the middle 4 artist info URLs). 

http://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2015/01/02?comments=visible 

has the 1st time this was used (but, with a different caption), which sadly, though my comment text is there with the line breaks removed, its 19 hyperlinks remain inactive. &?@#!#%&!

Again, a slightly larger strip image is shown by clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2036 (September 10, 2018) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment. A larger, different coloration, image of this painting can be found at the 3rd artist info URL (under WORKS).

She was tired of propositioning the cop, he never had any money.

Organizers realizing that they might have to rethink the International Xenophobes Festival.

She was waiting for Mr. Right. Or at least Mr. Right Amount.

Why do I always fall for the shy ones? It’s taken him 2 months to get this close!

“lady” of the afternoon on a slow day.

“I bet he’s forgotten everything that I just told him to get.”