That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for November 16, 2017

“I think I would look better in black.”

While the push-up bra has always been a big seller, the push-up girdle didn’t last very long.

She’s not pale because she never goes outside…she’s pale because her girdle’s too tight to draw a breath.

Slowly, Miss Lightening Rod of 1795 began to realize that she was not really all that sure of the old adage, that lightening never strikes the same place twice.

Cher, after finding Jesus, became embarrassed about her tattoos.

Dee Snider’s hair guru.

Early Sonny & Cher poster.

Be This Guy has it right: Francesco de Goya’s portrait of the same woman, María Cayetana de Silva, 13th Duchess of Alba, dressed in black, is much more interesting and sexier too.

This painter, not to be confused with the far better and much more famous Goya, Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, was commissioned to do a set of life-size portraits of the Dukes of Alba.

Historian Janis Tomlinston wrote in 1994 that “no matter how liberal a patron she might have been, it seems unlikely that she would have accepted a portrait that so mercilessly emphasized her pride and hauteur”. So Melcher has the caption about right too!

There are good Wikipedia articles on the painter and on the paintings as well, from which I pulled the above info.

" That’s my last duchess, painted with a ball…and dog"

Thanks for the birthday present, can’t wait to unwrap it.

The Duchess of Alba: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Francisco_de_Goya_y_Lucientes_-_The_Duchess_of_Alba_-_WGA10020.jpg 

(best viewed by Google Chrome – can translate pages if necessary) has info and links that point to info about this painting.

http://www.all-art.org/history372-5.html 

has extensive info about this artist (click his name link for the start of 20+ pages, showing works by him and other info). So far, 4 works by him have been used here.

http://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2014/01/10?comments=visible 

has the prior work (which, sadly, still has the 19 hyperlinks in my comment there, inactive @#$%&!).

Again, a larger strip image is shown by clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #1826 (November 15, 2017) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment; so, I won’t point to it here.

@Rugiern: not to be confused with … ??? 

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes is this artist (duh!). 

https://www.museodelprado.es/en/the-collection/art-work/the-naked-maja/65953b93-323e-48fe-98cb-9d4b15852b18

The latest addition to the Barbie range.

There is only one Goya….and he and the Duchess had a long term love affair. He did many portraits of her, the most famous of which is called The Naked Maja.

Goya’s reply: “I’ll get you, and your little dog, too!”