That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for June 28, 2024

/// As a parlor maid Ida was hired,

and yet secretly she now aspired

to be a connoisseur

of great art. The chauffeur

admired statues, and him she desired.

Art can be appreciated by everyone.

Mine doesn’t look like that. So am I the freak, or is it the artist?

“Statue?”

“Yeah, it’s me.”

Helga spots the “nanny cam”

Millie always wanted to be an artists model. Now she pondered maybe I could dress for the job I want

Helga didn’t take the job at the artist’s house because of the good pay, but because of the opportunity to look at the statues and paintings of naked girls.

Darn thing pee’d on me.

She hadn’t expected her nude modeling years to catch up with her like that.

Whattayou lookin’ at? Am I a clown? Do I amuse you?

“Ooh, that tickled!”

Helga suddenly realized that the statue bore a striking resemblance to her sister, Frieda.

The new house maid was simply nonplussed/

At the tastes of the “upper crust “:/

Stark naked (and shiny!)/

And flaunting her h*n*y:/

A metallic object of lust !///

To the housemaid, the bronze is a scandal:/

The sculptor, a scoundrel – a vandal../

On display in the home/

As in Paris or Rome !/

She’s finding it all hard to handle…///

Soon after she’s dusted the @$$/

Of the crouching ceramic lass/

On her mantelpiece perch/

She will hasten to church/

And confess, after hearing the mass…

Her employer uses a special elf on the shelf, in hopes of getting a glimpse of her cleavage.

I think she’s thinking (Why do these people accumulate all these Dust Catchers!)

She knew the statue was a ‘self portrait’ but she didn’t think he was doing that!

Nice wallpaper. :)

An Aspiring Connoisseur: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Paintings by Alfred Stevens" Wikimedia 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, Brave, and Yandex search engines) in the browser address bar (or search for it using one of those search engines) and choose the first Category: found and once there find the text string Aspiring, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this roughly jumbo envelope size wide painting, including access to its latest auction online Descriptions. 

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3346 (June 28, 2024) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment, and using the dropdown menu (even larger, if you trim what’s after .jpg from the URL). I have added a comment there pointing to the blog entry with my comment pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, 7 works by him have been used here (8 times, including a repeat), the May 28, 2024, strip being the prior.

Bettina thought, “I could have a body like that. A few trips to the gym … maybe a little enhancement surgery and some implants and … Oh, who the hell am I kidding?”

If you think I’m going to polish that little bit there you’re sadly mistaken.

@Solstice 1947 – Ah yes the old chauffeur trick…..