“Lipstick on you collar told a tale on you/ Lipstick on you collar said you were untrue/ Bet your bottom dollar you and I are through/’Cause lipstick on you collar told a tale on you”
Smiling for a portrait only started at some point in the 20th Century. I remember as a kid wondering why all the photos of Grandma’s generation looked like I was in trouble with them.
Well, that portrait should go well with their Christmas newsletter: Dear Friends and Family – Joseph and I experienced a bit of a rough patch in our marriage, this year…
(best viewed by Google Chrome, with Google Translate added to chrome://extensions, which can automatically translate most pages as necessary) has info and links that point to more info about this 1816, roughly jumbo envelope size painting. Other versions has strip coloration.
all have info, or links that point to more info, about this artist (again, Chrome can automatically translate as necessary), perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the title URL. So far, 2 works by him have been used here.
has the prior (my comment there included the same artist info URLs.)
Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2379 (February 7, 2020) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.
BE THIS GUY over 4 years ago
The painter’s parents couldn’t hide their disappointment at their son dropping out of law school.
Say What Now‽ Premium Member over 4 years ago
Helga: “I’ve got you for the rest of your life and you are going to behave yourself.” Wilhelm: “Yes dear.”
Strob Premium Member over 4 years ago
“Marrying my clone hasn’t worked out like I expected.”
Kind&Kinder over 4 years ago
“Oh, Jeremiah, you used to be sooooo hot! But, oh my, that kettle’s cooled!”
Papared25 over 4 years ago
In the “who can look the manliest contest” Matilda beat George by a nose…and a stronger jawline.
Kind&Kinder over 4 years ago
She realized she’d have to leave him now that Maxwell himself has gotten hammered!
santa72404 over 4 years ago
WORST SEX CHANGE EVER!
gopher gofer over 4 years ago
portrait of bruce willis in drag and that actor whose face is familiar, but whose name you just can’t recall…
orinoco womble over 4 years ago
“American Gothic” couple thirty years earlier.
Radish the wordsmith over 4 years ago
You just had to wear the see thru blouse on portrait day.
pcolli over 4 years ago
It looks like they’ve got their heads stuck through holes in the back of the canvas.
Buzzworld over 4 years ago
“Hey honey, why the long face?”
“See what I have to put up with?”
Egrayjames over 4 years ago
“Lipstick on you collar told a tale on you/ Lipstick on you collar said you were untrue/ Bet your bottom dollar you and I are through/’Cause lipstick on you collar told a tale on you”
well-i-never over 4 years ago
You smelt it, you dealt it.
J Short over 4 years ago
Before the command, “Say Cheese!” was invented.
jbrobo Premium Member over 4 years ago
That poison I gave him should be kicking in any time now
aerotica69 over 4 years ago
I never knew that Mary Steenburgen and Hugh Laurie made a costume drama together.
prrdh over 4 years ago
“Whaddya mean I was supposed to bring the pitchfork?”
bobpeters61 over 4 years ago
Smiling for a portrait only started at some point in the 20th Century. I remember as a kid wondering why all the photos of Grandma’s generation looked like I was in trouble with them.
lagoulou over 4 years ago
The honeymoon’s over..
Call me Ishmael over 4 years ago
It isn’t my style to deride / a man and his choice of a bride / but, in cases like this / which one is the “Miss” / is exceedingly hard to decide !
Blaidd Drwg Premium Member over 4 years ago
Cousins, identical cousins, they walk alike they talk alike….
Indianapolis Smith over 4 years ago
The amount of hair growing out of his ear was truly astonishing. She couldn’t look away.
WCraft Premium Member over 4 years ago
Well, that portrait should go well with their Christmas newsletter: Dear Friends and Family – Joseph and I experienced a bit of a rough patch in our marriage, this year…
PoodleGroomer over 4 years ago
The painter did give them a big discount for her favors.
mabrndt Premium Member over 4 years ago
Double Portrait of the Artist’s Parents:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Carl_Joseph_Begas_-_Double_Portrait_of_the_Artist%27s_Parents.jpg
(best viewed by Google Chrome, with Google Translate added to chrome://extensions, which can automatically translate most pages as necessary) has info and links that point to more info about this 1816, roughly jumbo envelope size painting. Other versions has strip coloration.
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/begas_the_elder_karl.html
https://www.the-athenaeum.org/people/detail.php?ID=5241
https://books.google.com/books?id=8pxRAAAAYAAJ&&q=%22Prussian%20painter%22&pg=PT890#v=onepage&q=%22Prussian%20painter%22&f=false
https://www.krefelderblatt.de/begas-haus-museum-feierlich-wieder-eroeffnet-1349/
https://www.wga.hu/bio_m/b/begas/carl/biograph.html
https://books.google.com/books?id=wCC2HkHpxg4C&q=Karl&pg=PT123#v=onepage&q=Karl&f=false
https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/pnd119181304.html
all have info, or links that point to more info, about this artist (again, Chrome can automatically translate as necessary), perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the title URL. So far, 2 works by him have been used here.
https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2020/01/27?comments=visible
has the prior (my comment there included the same artist info URLs.)
Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2379 (February 7, 2020) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.
Linguist over 4 years ago
Yet another Republican wife expresses her silent displeasure at her husband’s vote at the Senate Impeachment Trial.
tracybsmith over 4 years ago
“Hugh Laurie as the Captain, Bruce Willis as his wife in the new show ’Don’t go Back Out There Ahab!’”
Another Take over 4 years ago
Johann’s choice of a “beard” wasn’t fooling anyone.
MissScarlet Premium Member over 4 years ago
The artist said, “Please gaze at your husband adoringly” and that was the best she could do.
anomaly over 4 years ago
Portrait of the Artist’s Parents Trying Very Hard to Keep Their Hands Off Each Other.
Impkins Premium Member over 4 years ago
This is a very rare picture of Moe Howard of the Three Stooges and his first husband BRUCE. :>)
GoComicsGo! over 4 years ago
Jim wanted to know why he had to be the one in drag for the painting.
waltermintz almost 3 years ago
John Lithgow?