That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for March 04, 2013

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    margueritem  over 11 years ago

    Oh, I so agree. Perhaps the birdie will soil the young scamps garment…

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    Linguist  over 11 years ago

    My money is on the bird pecking the fat little darling, before the kid crushes it in his pudgy paw !

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    Woody157  over 11 years ago

    Snack time.

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    Superfrog  over 11 years ago

    And there’s the two he left in the bush.

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    orinoco womble  over 11 years ago

    Reminds me of that Monty Python sketch where they were pulling the heads off (plastic) birds etc.

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    orinoco womble  over 11 years ago

    That goldfinch has ceased to be! It is an ex-goldfinch! It has shuffled off this mortal coil and joined the choir invisible!

    Because no other way would it just submit to be held like that long enough to do a painting.

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    Coyoty Premium Member over 11 years ago

    Darwin was always fascinated with finches.

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    pcolli  over 11 years ago

    “Mmmm, birdie go belly, now.”

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    Tracy Rounds  over 11 years ago

    Young Dr. Evil, before the eye patch.

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    mamarose127 Premium Member over 11 years ago

    If you like this one, check out his brother.

    http://www.oil-portraitpainting.com/reproduction/Agnolo_Bronzino/Garcia_Medici.html

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    Peachguy82  over 11 years ago

    Looks like Honey Boo’s diet is for the birds!

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    Jim Bedsole Premium Member over 11 years ago

    Looks like Honey Boo Boo.

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    J Short  over 11 years ago

    I told you not to give the kid the “bird”.

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    ewalnut  over 11 years ago

    Is that bird supposed to be an ortolan?

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    puddlesplatt  over 11 years ago

    Young Henry the VIII off with it’s head. that just rolls off my tongue.

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    mabrndt Premium Member over 11 years ago

    Click-to-enlarge image can be found here or here. Smaller enlargement can be found at Mr. Melcher’s blog entry.Portrait of Giovanni de’ Medici as a Child (link shows his Wikipedia page) is shown, with a different coloration thumbnail image, by its current-location page.That also has 2 colorations (foto #1 | #2), that can be interactively enlarged (without the watermark) by clicking the [Visualizza in grande formato] below the watermarked image. The Google translation looses those.It is described here, along with a different coloration, click-to-enlarge image. Another different coloration, click-to-enlarge image can be found here; but many different coloration or detail images are available online.You can also see a portrait of him and his mother at the current-location. Perhaps his father had to sell his clothes to pay for her dress.As @orinoco womble and @Pacopuddy mentioned, the bird is a goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis). The artist’s Wikipedia page and collection (more under Subcategories).Second, of the 5 works, by this artist, that have, so far, appeared in Mr. Melcher’s blog, to also appear here.

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    transwarpmail-comics  over 11 years ago

    He didn’t get that fat munching on vegetables.

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    Dr Sheriff MB esq PhD DML   over 11 years ago

    dam straight it didn’t end well, I can wipe the sticky coffee off the screen, but its the second keyboard I have to turn back in to the IT department in the past 3 weeks…. I’ll email the helpdask a screenshot (sic)… they’ll understand.

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    mabrndt Premium Member over 11 years ago

    If anyone’s interested, I have added a new detail to last Friday.

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    gcarlson  over 11 years ago

    New Gerber Goldfinch Flavor.

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    vldazzle  over 11 years ago

    I really like her dress for my own SCA personna (an English lady at Emperor Frederick’s court – daughter of his goldsmith) and I reallize that some infants are raised to be gentle enough to treat a small bird gently (I remember one little girl younger than that who petted Cuddles – and she allowed it, so the bird also understood). But as this was a Medici boy . . . I rather doubt it.

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    lindaf  over 11 years ago

    I’ve always thought of this picture as “the bird-biter”.

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    lindaf  over 11 years ago

    Oh, just to answer someone’s question, it’s one of Eleanor of Toledo and Cosimo de Medici’s children. Don’t remember which one off hand. We can all hope he was the one who died in childhood.

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    lindaf  over 11 years ago

    Oops found his name. It may or may not amuse everyone to know he lived, and became a cardinal.

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    Kathleen Eigenbrode  over 11 years ago

    Looks like Honey Boo Boo.

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    Calvins Brother  over 11 years ago

    What the zip happened to the kids left hand?

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    mabrndt Premium Member over 11 years ago

    Here is another work by this artist.

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