That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for December 17, 2024

Is it just me, or is that too much house for one person?

This is just the dog’s house. You should see the owner’s house.

/// This young Woman cannot be objective—

what she’s Reading is filled with invective.

In this Letter she’s cursed—

although he cheated first.

What she needs is a View with Perspective.

Hey you, yes you looking through the window, will you please help me by explaining to this airhead behind me the importance of turning around three times before taking a dump ?

“Hey Samuel, don’t give me that look. She brought some plastic bags.”

eww! did the big ole doggy leave me a present?

van Hoogstraten is a heck of a moniker.

See! I told you we were the first people in Amsterdam with a tumble dryer!

It looks like she has a front-loader washing machine built into the wall behind her. I can’t remember the last time I saw one of those in a 17th century painting.

“Calls itself’Amsterdam‘s finest laundromat’, and half the dryers are broken?”

And 3 seconds later he peed on the column.

A peek inside Mar-a-Lago.

That nice looking spaniel has too much class to sully his home.

Hey don’t look at me – she has the treats!

Like all artists, Van Hoogstraten’s bound/

By the laws of perspective. He’s found/

That the lines must converge/

If he hopes to emerge/

Unbitten by yonder hound.

He’s a hypercritical hound -/

a dog who has been around:/

A beast recondite/

Who has every right/

To be prominent in the foreground.

Next on “Stupid Pet Tricks”, Cindy and her spaniel Prinz Eugen will do forced perspective.

“You come one step closer to my mistress and I’ll make you wish you were never born. Yeah, van Hoogstraten, I’m talking to you!”

Little Dogs Don’t Know They’re Little

There’s an awful lot of detail in that painting…compared to Vermeer’s “The Letter”.

That’s either a very large breed of dog or a very small breed of human.

“Are you SURE her letter was all the mail there was? I’m waiting for a box from Chewy.com.”

Girl In a Quandary: If Your Stalker Sends You a Christmas Card, Do You Have to Send One Back?

“My Dearest Brechtje…” (scratch scratch scratch) “…tho my passion for you is undimmed…” (scratch scratch) “…it pains me to write that I must withdraw from your…” (scratch scratch scratch) “…company…” (scratch) “…so long as you…” (scratch scratch) “…refuse to confront…” (scratch scratch scratch scratch scratch) “…your dog’s flea problem.” (scratch scratch scratch) “Love, Aldert.”

Perspective View with a Woman Reading a Letter: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Paintings by Samuel van Hoogstraten" Wikimedia 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, and Brave search engines) in the browser address bar (or search for it using one of those search engines) and choose the first (or second currently by Google) Category: found, and once there find the text string 66. (note the period), and click its link for info and links that point to more info (perhaps best viewed using the Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox browsers, which can automatically translate most webpages if necessary) about this large painting. 

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3429 (December 17, 2024) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment, and using the dropdown menu (even larger if you crop what’s after .png from the URL). I’ve added a comment there pointing to the info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, first work by him used here.

GOOD BOY YOU FOUND THE WAY OUT!

“Perspective View with a Woman Reading a Letter”

All the fans here on Priceless endorse/

This technical tour de force -/

He’s completed the “course”:/

He’s used every resource/

but it seems that he is left out a horse..

For tomorrow:

this painting by Mr. Tuke/

demands a resounding rebuke!/

Who enjoys being bad -/

perhaps ‘cause his dad is a Duke.