That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for March 27, 2017

The meeting got off to a bad start when the two sides couldn’t agree on how to dress for the occasion.

Mon Dieu! Ces pantalons sont si 1815!

Okay, another winner. You’re on a roll!

Sean Spicer announces the executive order proclaiming knickers to be worn by everyone in the Great Amerika Party. Admirers from Breitbart and Fox offer the ceremonial gift of Red Hat dye for the Führer.

Wait until they see Monsieur Guillotine’s cure for headaches.

Republicans and Democrats agreeing on something…….Yeah Right!!!!!

“The Treaty of Ghent (8 Stat. 218), signed on December 24, 1814, in the city of Ghent, Belgium. This was the peace treaty that ended the War of 1812 between the United States of America and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.”

The painting is presently in the Smithsonian. See americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=8473.

As for the artist: pretty much just a hardworking professional. Lots of magazine and book illustrations, work for history museums, etc. There’s a pretty good Wikipedia article on him.

So, we have a painting depicting an event that took place a century earlier, and a joke referring to a king who died a century before that, with a topical reference to the present, which is yet another century. So I’m afraid Mr. Melcher will be assigned to Remedial History next term. I believe there’s hope for him if he applies himself as we all expect him to do.

“So, it’s agreed. White stockings and breeches Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, black stockings and breeches Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. Sunday is dresser’s choice.”

But…Louie de 14th, ’ee deed NOT care.

Then Melania Antoinette said, “Let Them Eat Diamonds …”

2 URLs (copy each as one line):

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Signing_of_Treaty_of_Ghent_(1812).jpg

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

http://www.illustratedfirstworldwar.com/amedee-forestier-1854-1930/

has info about this artist.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #1672 (March 26, 2017) entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box below the last comment; so, I won’t point to it here.

Well, the peasants were revolting anyway.

Now gentlemen, let’s move on to our next piece of legislation, abortion only by guillotine.

“Wait, wait…I think I can do this now, without the script, or a prompt. "

“(sigh,) Well, okay, my agent says I should do these book signings.”

“I now pronounce you husband and husband”

@RUGEIRN & @MANRNDT

I realized it was a painting of the Ghent negotiations because I recognized John Q. Adams shaking hands with the British officer.