That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for April 17, 2017

“Get away from me, kid; you bother me.”

“No, I do not want to try on your hat.”

“No, I don’t want any Amway products.”

“For the umpteenth time, I am NOT interested in converting to your religion!”

The first comment here (“Get away from me, kid; you bother me”) is just about dead on. According to the ancient story, which is probably apocryphal, the young up-and-comer Alexander came to yhe older philosopher Diogenes and asked him what, if anything, he wanted. Diogenes, sunbathing, replied, “Just get out of my light,” or words to that effect. Alexander was so impressed with Diogenes’ disdain for power and greatness that he temarked to his entourage, “If I were not Alexander, I would wish to be Diogenes.”

The story has been retold and used in the arts and culture of the Western world many, many times. A good summary can be found at https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogenes_and_Alexander.

As for the artist, he was a thoroughly academic painter who had a hard time being accepted by the Academy. He did make it, on his second try. Later on, he introduced the idea that history painting could do more than present images of battles by doing a painting of Moliere reading Tartuffe to the salon of Ninon de Lenclos. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas-André_Monsiau for more.

As is usual for painters of this era, for some reason the people in their paintings seem to have great difficulty in keeping their clothes on. You would think an eminent philosopher could keep his robe from falling down; oh, well….

Thus endeth the lesson.

No, I do not want to see your “Prince Albert”

Diogenes demonstrates the latest core exercise for getting that ripped look.

Diogenes refusing to have his picture taken for the Philosophers’ Yearbook.

“If you’re the honest man I’m looking for, I’m Alexander of Macedon.”

Artist turned the contrast up high and clicked save.

2 URLs (copy each as one line):

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Monsiau_-_Alexandre_et_Diog%C3%A8ne.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.wga.hu/bio_m/m/monsiau/biograph.html

has info about this artist.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #1688 (April 16, 2017) entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box below the last comment; so, I won’t point to it here.

“For the last time, no, I don’t want to buy any Lululemon athletic wear!”

“Sir, since you are over 62, you qualify for a reverse mortgage. Let me describe the benefits.”

“You put your left hand out, you put your left hand in”….Left hand Digs, left hand.

" No, I don’t want to hear how great Trump Care’s going to be ! "

“Whaddya mean, my barrel doesn’t meet the housing code here?”

go away you wore me out the first time

“Uncle Bob, you’ve done this joke like a million times, I’m not going to pull any of your fingers!”