That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for October 08, 2024

/// It’s a basin built into a bench,

first invented back then by the French.

People bathed once a week.

In between, women seek

daily ways to stay fresh (and ban stench).

Before painters were banned in washrooms.

Madame, getting ready for her next customer.

Why would she leave so much clothing on for her bath? She’s even wearing stockings and shoes.

When Lavinia laves her crotch/

She invites her public to watch:/

What makes her so frisky?/

‘tis the presence of whiskey-/

She blends her bath water with Scotch ..

My little pony.

Young Esmé takes care of business before she goes trick or treating as Marie Antoinette.

I know it’s not ladylike to spread my legs while sitting, but this thing don’t work sidesaddle.

origin story for the bidet?

didja ever wonder what was in the women’s restroom?

Nice Beever!…Thank you I just had it stuffed!

“Giddyup.”

From the Internet, Wordpress.com:

The French artist, Louis-Léopold Boilly, was known for “depicting the most varied aspects of everyday life in Paris” (Bhutia). In his La Toilette intime ou la Rose effeuillée, which translates to “Personal hygiene where the rose bloomed” (Belfield), Boilly depicts a young woman using her bidet…

… An important symbol in the painting is the fully bloomed pink rose with its petals scattered on the ground. With this said “the flower was often used as a symbol for menstruation” which could be suggesting that she was on her period. In the 1700s, menstruation was not talked about publicly but was rather kept as private as possible.  With this said, “menstrual blood carried connotations that were both repellent and erotic” (Belfield)…

…The subject matter of this painting is quite bold for the time considering that bathing and menstruation was still considered somewhat of a private ordeal. Although humans taking baths or cleaning themselves had been painted before, this painting differs from the others as the young woman is not a goddess or Biblical character, yet instead, she is a  wealthy aristocratic woman…

Not to be overdramatic, but it was a “stirring moment”

“Go into modeling” they said. “It’ll be glamorous!” they said.

I thought I could get my shoes shined but this will work!

Not taking the bait!!! You’re just trying to get me banned.

Maybe if we could get it to rock back and forth…….

That’s one heck of a spotlight she has built into her dressing room.

This painting was originally entitled, “After The Ball Was Over”.

French wench cleanses trench on bench.

How in the world did the artist talk this woman into this private and risque pose? ’Promise her the centerfold? ’Tell her it would help her career?

Lavage and gently scrub until satisfied. She is trying for her fourth satisfaction this hour.

Giving new meaning to the phrase “and the horse you rode in on.”

The Morning Wash: Woman on a Bidet: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Toilets in art" Wikimedia 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, and Brave 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 intime, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this 1790 painting. 

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3388 (October 7, 2024) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment, and using the dropdown menu. I have added a comment there pointing to the blog entry with my comment and reply pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, 11 works by him have been used here (13 times, with 2 repeats), the May 30, 2024, strip being the prior (a repeat).

When my husband calls me a wench, he demands that I sit on this bench, and with water that’s hot, and scented with bergamot, scrub well to get rid of the stench.

I’m going to guess that nobody ever bought this artist’s painting to hang in their gallery. Unless it’s Ripley.

I never got this stuff in my history classes. I do know that the William, the Duke of Normandy, won at the Battle of Hastings in 1066. This painting is from the 1800s and appears to be a closet and she is bathing in (assumedly) water. Is that where the Brits got the term water closet?

No one wondered why she was smiling!

Having long since tired of her Easy Bake Oven, Lillith was thrilled to receive her Hasbro Easy Peasy Clean & Breezy Clam Washer for her Thirteenth birthday.

Ilse lund found a way where men are not necessary, and she loves it.

Reminds me of an old joke ….. “She was so stupid that she thought Peter Pan was a wash basin in a bordello.”

Wednesday:

The Sultan had posted a rule/

In the harem: “No feet in the pool !”/

Twas a rule she dismissed/

For she couldn’t resist/

Now she walks on her ankles- the fool…