That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for July 08, 2019

“This isn’t working. How about we do a closeup of your face with you wearing one earring.”

Or “Not To Sound Stupid, But, Um… What Is Soccer?”

This is my sexiest pose, buster!”

The painter was so fixated on the model’s hat, it took him 5 hours to paint just that.

Posing for Mennonite issue of Playboy.

“Will you hurry up! I’m bursting for a pee.”

“Would you stop painting me whenever I walk into the room! I Just came in to get a book!”

How much longer do I need to hold this pose? My nose itches.

Let me PAINT you a picture!

He’s sure he can think of something to get her to take her clothes off – for artistic purposes if course!

America was discovered 168 years ago. Hadn’t you noticed?

“Heh heh. lmao.. look at her. HAR! A-Hem… anyway… smile. lol… "

Fell in love with Vermeer when I saw this at the Kunsthistorisches when I was knocking around in the mid 70’s.

Definition of an American: Someone who drives around the parking lot for 20 minutes to get the space closest to the gym.

“My cousin in New Amsterdam says they are savages.” “Ah, you didn’t bet the tulip farm, did you?”

Johannes, are you using the camera obscura again?

Americans? People who are too blind to see a con man when he’s right in front of them.

(And yeah, I’m from the US. Sad to admit these days.)

You used to have to wait a long time for the VAR (Video Assistant Referees) to review an offsides call.

He was the Pete Maravich of painting.

I’m afraid of Americans

I’m afraid of the world

I’m afraid I can’t help it

I’m afraid I can’t

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David Bowie

The lady’s ethnicity’s Dutch/which probably matters too much/ they’re a serious folk/ so this is no joke/ you can paint-but you’d better not touch !

“Screw you Norman Rockwell! Twas I, Vermeer, who was the first painter who painted himself painting!”

MODEL: Why am I holding a broken trombone? VERMEER: It’s a sexual innuendo. The dudes who are into art will eat it up. MODEL: Yeah, well, in your endo. Hurry up and finish would ya? I gotta see a man about a dog.

Yes, this is me painting. Yes, this is an art form. Yes, I do like blue hair.

“Oh, no, I’m doing a landscape. I just wanted you here to keep me company.”

this is it, if you want a nude, your going to pay a lot better than this.

If I may say so Mr. Vermeer, if I am to be the statue of liberty; shouldn’t I be holding a torch or something – instead of a sackbut?

“Madam, this painting is going to come out blurry if you keep insisting on breathing.”

The Art of Painting or The Allegory of Painting or Painter in his Studio is pointed to by Googling

"The Art of Painting" Vermeer Project site:wikimedia.org

The one starting with File: with Project in the URL will take you to the title URL I used to point to in prior comments. So far, this is the 7th work by this artist used here (8 times, including a different caption repeat).

https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2019/02/12?comments=visible

has the prior (the repeat; if my comment is still there, it has the artist info URLs).

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2238 (July 7, 2019) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

P.S. My earlier post had the wrong directions. In deleting it, that also lost andyboda’s reply: When I first saw this 45 years ago it was referred to as “The Allegory of History”, probably by someone who was looking at the map behind the model.

And that team were women!! Go USA!!!!