That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for July 13, 2022

Not only was Edouard Manet a great painter, he was also a pretty good song and dance man.

Denis was always putting obstacles in front of himself.

" A good caning is what these rapscallions need. Especially the little girls".

Every girls crazy about a short fat man……..sorry——-sharp dressed man.

…..but you can leave your hat on

Oswald had a tendency to overdress for a day at the beach.

“Tu parles a MOI ?”

It seems he left his left hand out in the sun for a long time.

“It’s a privilege to meet me.”

He paints better than Maurice Utrillo/

But leaves bristles all over his pillow/

Yes – it’s Eddie Manet -

(On the Champs Elysées/

Les enfants call him “Monsieur Brillo”.)

Hank Fantin, inventor of the copper braze

Speak softly and carry a steel pipe.

“This is an eighty-five centimeter solid ash walking stick with a three point five centimeter diameter, one of the stoutest walking sticks ever made. It can fracture a skull clean through. So the question you have to ask yourself is ‘do I feel lucky today?’ Fabricati diem, Pvnc!”

Samuel West after a month of letting the beard grow out further.

I’m John Gray. Is Elizabeth McGraw ready for our date?

He just got the final fitting on his new formal lifting suit.

“No, I can’t pull a rabbit out of my hat.”

“If you’re blue and you don’t know where to go to, why don’t you go where fashion sits….”

After painting Edouard Manet / I decided to call it a day / I will not lie, / It’s the wrong guy / It’s supposed to be Monet.

3 seconds before the curtain rises Henri realizes he forgot his tap shoes

I swear he’s doing the old High School Senior photo trick of shooting the bird (see left hand). That’s unusual for one of the teachers to be doing it…

If you’re blue, and you don’t know where to go to

Why don’t you go where fashion sits? Puttin’ on the ritz

Eduard bristles when he is irate/

Nowadays, his continual state/

For the fur on his chin/

To his growing chagrin/

Far exceeds what remains on his pate..

/// In this Portrait of Édouard Manet

he’s just back from the Champs-Élysées.

Outdoors, “dressed to the nines”

Manet rarely reclines,

unlike folks shown in Le déjeuner…

Édouard Manet: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Portrait paintings by Henri Fantin-Latour" site=https://commons.wikimedia.org 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, and Yandex 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 Chicago, and click the first‘s link for info and links that point to more info about this painting.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2959 (July 13, 2022) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment, and using the dropdown menu (even larger if you trim what’s after .png from the URL). I have added a comment there (awaiting Mr. Melcher’s approval) pointing to the blog entry with info about this artist. So far, 6 works, by this artist, have been used here. The September 8, 2020, strip has the prior.

/// Jean-Philippe was the kind of a fop

whose debauchery no pleas could stop.

He was cruel and severe.

Note what he’s wielding here;

it’s his favorite new riding crop.

/// There’s a problem you’ve noticed, of course,

Jean-Philippe never rides on a horse.

The whippings he launches

on non-equine haunches

were one cause of his costly divorce.

“Manet, dah-mit! MAH-nay!”

Note to Ron Howard: Keep the cane, lose the top hat!

the producer decided George just wasn’t the look to play Lincon a bit too fancy.

Hello! Have you heard about Hair Club for men?

Haley Joel Osment as been getting a lot of acting business lately!