That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for March 10, 2022

Even when painting a landscape, Courbet needed a muse to inspire him.

/// At Courbet’s model’s feet her dress dropped.

(To entice him, her kid, to adopt?)

If the frisky cat seems

to add too many themes,

you should see this before it was cropped.

That woman’s not a model – she just likes taking her clothes off (it’s France. Stuff like that happens).

Is it me, or is there a breeze here?

It was take your son to work day. And take a naked woman to work day. And take a cat to work day. They all watched him paint a landscape.

The artist has gotten so bored of painting nudes that midway through one work, he decided to switch to doing a landscape

i’m sorry dear, i cannot paint you, i only have bluenor green paint with me today…

Questions: The calendar button only goes back to 2011. Is the 12/18/09 throwback date correct? Anyone been here long enough to remember?

The heck with the King, it’s GOOD to be the artist’s son.

You nasty little boy! You zip those pants up!

“Gustave, I’m sorry. Your paintings are so real, and looking at the river for so long…Is there a loo nearby?” “Fiddle sticks. Use the bushes over there. You’ll blend right in.”

madame courbet wonders if this latest painting will finally pay for some clothes…

“What time are you coming to bed?”

Everyone stops to watch when Gustave Courbet Bross starts painting happy trees.

Somebody’s going to have a kink in her neck!

A better caption: Could you babysit while I interview for a waitress opening at Hooters?

The family of Gus Courbet/Is having a typical day../Mother flaunts herself “nudiously”/while Junior is studiously /Looking the other way…///

They are known to defy convention/(It’s a source of internal dissension)But whatever the stresses/Mother always undresses/In hopes of relieving the tension….

The garments that lie at her feet/ have utterly failed to compete/ and they uselessly lie lie/ in a cluster nearby/ whilst she covers herself with a sheet../// So you see, there is nothing amiss/ in a family scene such as this:/ it is wise to recall/ that they’re French, after all/ and in France, this is “domestic bliss” !

Daddy, did mommy also tell you to go outside and play with your toys?

" Mon cher, I know you want to be a famous artist, but really … you gave up a perfectly good job as a barn painter for this? "

She: I’m ready for you. He: Benny, take your dog for a long walk!

Or, artist who forgot it’s his day to be minding his son, and had swinger model scheduled for a nude sitting. And some sort of spastic cat.

Do you mean I’ve been standing there for days freezing my buns (and other bits!) off and you didn’t even include me in the painting?

Madam Garde-Robe Mauvais Fonctionnement brought her son to get his portrait painted with their cat, but the artist was busy painting a landscape instead.

“That is one sexy tree!”

Detail of The Painter’s Studio: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gustave_Courbet_006.jpg 

(best viewed with Google Chrome, which can automatically translate most webpages if necessary) has info and links that point to more info about this huge painting. The full painting is shown by clicking the Summary inset image at the right. File history has the strip coloration image. 

Though the title includes Throwback Thursday, this is the first time it has appeared at GoComics. It’s a blog Throwback Thursday.

Again, a slightly larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image at  

https://thatispricelessblog.com/2022/03/masterpiece-64 

and using the dropdown menu. I have added a comment there (awaiting Mr. Melcher’s approval) pointing to the artist info I used to point to here. So far, 9 works, by this artist, have been used here. 

https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2015/12/17?comments=visible 

has the prior (the 25 hyperlinks in my comment there have been deactivated, and the line breaks removed, but perhaps the text remains informative).

P.S. The GoComics Moderator has deleted the comments I posted here 3/3/22-3/8/22 (maybe 3/9/22 as well) because supposedly they violated the Comments Policy (see right side at the end of the webpage). When I asked why, the Moderator only said they “violated the policy” (very vague). It’s hard to change when you don’t know what rule was broken. Anyway, if you would prefer my comments be restored, please contact the Moderator (moderator@gocomics.com). Thank you.

Artist couldn’t decide which pussy to paint so he ended up painting the boy.

I think that I shall never see/A nude as naked as a tree/Though she’s far from the park/Still she’s showing her “bark”/And the show is completely free..///

Though few of her features corporeal/

Could be deemed in the least bit “arboreal”/

Any bark is replaced/

By stuff more to my taste:/

I.e., epidermis, marmoreal.

au contraire! I included you in the painting! See! Right there! Would you like a magnifying glass?