That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for April 19, 2017

“And reason number five why you should go out with me, is that I have my own well!”

2 URLs (copy each as one line):

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ferdinand_Georg_Waldm%C3%BCller_-_Christus_und_die_Samariterin_(1818).jpg

has info and links that point to info about this roughly 17×22 jumbo envelope size painting (best viewed by Google Chrome – can automatically translate pages if necessary). So far, 7 works by this artist have been used here.

http://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2014/07/22?comments=visible

has the prior strip (which, sadly, still has no active hyperlinks &?@#!#%&!).

Again, a larger strip image is shown by clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #1690 (April 18, 2017) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment; so, I won’t point to it here.

I’m in glove with you.

" I’d carry that for you, but I’ve got a serious case of Texter’s Thumb. "

Here’s the scene from John 4:4-26. Jesus, somewhat riddlingly, identifies himself to a Samaritan woman. That’s a big deal in the day; not much good will between Jews and Samaritans at the time.

Today’s artist is an interesting example of a phenomenon one sees rather frequently in cultural history: someone highly influential in his time and virtually forgotten today. Our boy’s time lies in between Napoleon and the revolution of 1848, a time when tightly controlling governments kept things quiet and the increasingly important middle class liked it that way. Waldmuller dedicated himself to painting based on close observation of nature. “Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller was one of the most important Austrian painters of the Biedermeier period. Whether it was the conquest of the landscape and thus the convincing rendering of closeness or distance, the accurate characterisation of the human face, the detailed and refined description of textures, or the depiction of rural everyday life: his works – brilliant, explanatory, moralising, and socially critical – influenced a whole generation of artists. Being an advocate of natural observation and plein air painting, as well as a critic of academic painting, Waldmüller was far ahead of his time.” Which is why he got fired from his teaching job. Eventually they let him come back.

Here’s an oddity. This painting is teferred to as “partial copy after Annibale Caracci”. Here’s the Carracci: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annibale_Carracci#/media/File%3AAnnibale_Carracci_-The_Samaritan_Woman_at_the_Well_-WGA4446.jpg. OK, it’s the same subject. But a “copy”? Hmmmmmm.

Anyway, the work is in a private collection. It was auctioned in 2010 for 21,250 euro in Vienna, See https://www.dorotheum.com/en/auctions/current-auctions/kataloge/list-lots-detail/auktion/10844-19th-century-paintings/lotID/1276/lot/1772632-ferdinand-georg-waldmuller.html.

Jesus, explaining the High Five

If you haven’t put that kettle on before I count to five, Polly…………………….

go ahead and wash your clothes, I’ll just pretend not to look

“Shhh… Don’t look now, but that guy behind you was staring at your jugs.”

One of the many mentions of baseball in the Bible.

The Samaritan woman went to the well with the pitcher.

Others: The Lord created the world in the Big Inning. Eve stole first; Adam stole second. And the Prodigal Son made a run for home!

Mansplaining the callouses on his masturbation hand.

Good guess. Now, how many fingers am I holding up?

I thought Jesus was trying to meet up with her at some remoter location.