That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for April 08, 2019

It’s the only thing that keeps his heart working.

It’s a big meal for such a small guy.

Eleanore, the young wife, should have wiped that creepy smile off the old counts face with the back of her big right hand. Looking closer at my expanded version of her face and her annoyed expression, I think that’s probably what’s next for that ungrateful ba….d.

Thanks for the mammaries…

A sip of milk makes the medicine go down, makes the medicine go down…

There’s many a slip ’twixt the cup and the lip, but not too many between nipple and lip.

That’s no way to treat a lady, but it is the way to teat a laddie…

Okay, the rest of you can milk this picture for humor now…

Yes miss, I would like milk in my tea.

When she answered the ad for a milkmaid, she thought she’d be working with cows!

No doubt about it. Austria has some nice white mountains.

“To bad I’m lactose intolerant!!!”

“Hi my name is Tat”

I think Steinbeck saw this picture.

This is why we need that censor from Pearls Before Swine.

Isn’t Roman Charity supposed to be about a starving prisoner? This looks like recreational fun in the living room.

Keep in mind that someone spent hours posing for this portrait, and presumably paid good money for it.

Ah the brightening of the day by a willing woman.

My favorite way to be called a big baby.

She working toward a degree in nursing the elderly.

Wow. Someone had to pose for that!

Bitty…

Kind of gives the word succubus a different meaning.

Hello Nurse is the buxom studio nurse, over whom Yakko and Wakko continually fawn. Hello Nurse’s appearance almost always prompts Wakko and Yakko into exclaiming “Hellooooooo, Nurse!”

Lunch time!!

Door to door milk delivery service…

" Hey, gimme a break! It’s a job. "

Ok, my GUESS is that this was the bygone equivalent of nursing care, tube feeding, not public sex, but the question remains, why in the H—L would they have wanted to pose for a picture of it?!?!

It’s not a sicko painting – it’s a mother and her unfortunate child who suffers from Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome.

Count Franz de Paula Graf von Hartig and his wife Eleanore as Caritas Romana: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Barbara_Krafft_-_Franz_de_Paula_hrab%C4%9B_Hartig_a_jeho_man%C5%BEelka_Eleonora_jako_Caritas_Romana_(1797).jpg 

(best viewed by Google Chrome, with Google Translate added to chrome://extensions, which can automatically translate most pages as necessary) has info and links that point to info about this painting (if its museum replies to my e-mail, perhaps more will be added then – actually confirming it’s oil on canvas, its size, date, etc.).

https://books.google.com/books?id=sadAQXx8kvoC&q=Barbara&pg=PA65#v=onepage&q=Barbara&f=false 

http://www.askart.com/artist/Barbara_Krafft/11045828/Barbara_Krafft.aspx 

both have info about this artist (again, the full bio at the 2nd can be read for free on Fridays), perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the first URL. This is the first work by her used here.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2175 (April 7, 2019) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

Hilda took an unusually long time to wean Franz.

Straight people are so weird.

the look on his face is Kind of disturbing

You know, some stuff really should be kept in the bedroom.

Well, since he is a teetotaler and asked for nip, I thought I would accommodate his wishes.

He’s a dying old man, going out as he came in.

Old Guy: “and to think, I once had a ‘no fat chicks’ sticker on my sedan chair..”

Mother’s milk may even boost children’s intelligence if they feed for more than a year or two. And their immune system can be strengthened.

On Preston platform Do your soft shoe shuffle dance Brush away the cigarette ash that’s Falling down your pants And you sadly wonder Does the nurse treat your old man The way she should She made you tea Asked for your autograph What a laugh Ian Anderson “Cheap Day Return”

Why in the world would they want a painting of that?? Can you imagine posing for it Day after day? She doesn’t look too thrilled.