That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for December 30, 2019

“How long do we all have to pose like this? I have to GO!

“Cut! Please don’t look at the painter, just pretend he’s not there. Take two!”

“Yes, I object to this wedding!”

“Egan Adolph, that was foul! If you must have bratwurst for lunch at least have the decency to forego the sauerkraut.”

go ahead, pull my sword…

So! You want to play with my épée? Enjoy it to the hilt! Later, if you’re good, I’ll let you touch my monkey! (apologies to Mike Myers!)

“Excuse me, is this the Seinfeld briss?”

Last minute amendment to protocol : Joan of Arc must also flash the king before being knighted.

Everybody is arching their back and trying to stand as tall as possible – do ALL French people have a Napoleon complex?

They’re Prussians. That’s Frederick the Great., I think.

The problem, it seems, was this/that day at the Seinfeld bris/ that the Mohel was a Kraut/ raised a good bit of doubt/clearly something had gone amiss….

For God’s sake, someone oil those door hinges.

My liege, the brides are here for the droit du seigneur ceremony. Are you up for it?

Heinrich and the rest of the Hohenzollern gang realizing they’ve just been Punk’d!

“I asked for the watermelon-flavored sabre. If this is the licorice sabre again, I’ll put you in timeout.”

(Re: Melcher’s caption) – He didn’t, but the bride did.

Anyone up for a World War? No? OK. Just know that next Century we’ll have to start two then.

You talkin’ to me? Huh? Huh?

Armor Chamber Fantasy:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Adolf_Menzel_-_%22Armor_Chamber_Fantasy%22,_1866_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg 

has info and links that point to info about this roughly jumbo envelope size drawing.

 

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

https://www.the-athenaeum.org/people/detail.php?ID=2991

https://www.wikiart.org/en/adolph-menzel

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/10299714/adolph-menzel

http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/artists/411/adolf-von-menzel-german-1815-1905/

https://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/events/exhibitions/archives/archives/article/menzel-1815-1905-the-truth-neurosis-4443.html?no_cache=1

https://www.wga.hu/bio_m/m/menzel/biograph.html

http://www.artnet.com/artists/adolph-von-menzel/

http://www.adolph-von-menzel.com/

http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/famous-artists/adolph-menzel.htm

https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz61778.html

 

all have info, or links that point to more info, about this artist (again, Google Chrome can automatically translate as necessary), perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the title URL. So far, 4 works (5 times, with 1 repeat) by him have been used here. 

https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2019/12/30?comments=visible 

has the prior (the repeat, my comment there included the same artist info URLs, the second of which may be unresponsive).

 

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2457 (May 26, 2020) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.