Those mitts either kept your hands warm (a consideration when you live without central heating) or were a modesty thing. Women wore gloves in public until the mid 1950s. I guess hands and ankles drove guys mad back then.
Her expression is, at best, rather dour / And hints at a disposition somewhat sour. / The artist tried every guile / To try and get just a bit of a smile. / But she just glared at him hour after hour after hour.
So her sittings were rather stuffy / Wearing that bonnet and sleeves so very puffy. / You can tell by her gaze, / She’s remembering the long-ago days, / When she was the fearless Vampire Slayer named Buffy.
Portrait of Mette Sophie Fuglsang, the artist’s aunt:
Paste (including the quote marks)
"Category:Portrait paintings by Wilhelm Bendz" site=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 Mette, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this roughly square, A4 paper size painting.
Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3072 (February 1, 2023) 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). So far, 4 works by this artist have been used here, the January 25, 2020, strip bring the prior (my comment there points to the blog entry comment with the artist info I used to point to here).
Say What Now‽ Premium Member over 1 year ago
“I dare you to swipe left.”
Solstice*1947 over 1 year ago
/// Wilhelm’s aunt, Mette Sophie, won fame
with Fuglsang* as her Danish last name.
You don’t read that word wrong,
it translates to “birdsong.”
Very sweet (for a broad-shouldered dame).
Pronounced a bit like “Foolsahng”ronaldspence over 1 year ago
Persimmon Queen, 1846
Jayalexander over 1 year ago
Oh dear. My hairs a mess.
orinoco womble over 1 year ago
Those mitts either kept your hands warm (a consideration when you live without central heating) or were a modesty thing. Women wore gloves in public until the mid 1950s. I guess hands and ankles drove guys mad back then.
Call me Ishmael over 1 year ago
Just look at the width of those shoulders!/
Her deltoids resemble twin boulders!/
But she struggles to hide/
Her feminine side/
Which underneath silently smolders..///
She’s strong for a woman her age:/
She’s accustomed to fight in a cage)/
But if you should dare/
To laugh at her hair/
You will soon feel her murderous rage!///
She thinks her outrageous coiffure/
Enhances her girlish allure/
She receives emanations/
From shortwave stations/
From Rangoon to Rancipur !///
She once had a husband who laughed/
At her coiffure- he must have been daft/
When his body was found/
He was thought to have drowned…/
But some say he “gave her a raft”…
P51Strega over 1 year ago
“Please hurry” she squeaked to the artist, “this bow has cut off all blood flow to my head.”
PraiseofFolly over 1 year ago
Unlike most other Danish girls
Sophie worked out with weights; and curls
She practiced way way too much,
So much her biceps bulged to such
A size it scared the eligible guys,
Who might be attracted otherwise.
The nuts she cracked in crooks of her arms
Did also raise their sharp alarms!
Ubintold over 1 year ago
That broad’s got broad shoulders.
jbrobo Premium Member over 1 year ago
Beta testing of a human cone of shame.
jdculhane46 over 1 year ago
Although it was innovative, there never seemed to be a market for the combination bonnet and radar dish
Silly Season over 1 year ago
From: @Call me Ishmael
https://www.gocomics.com/profile/2288699
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Just look at the width of those shoulders!/
Her deltoids resemble twin boulders!/
But she struggles to hide/
Her feminine side/
Which underneath silently smolders..///
She’s strong for a woman her age:/
She’s accustomed to fight in a cage)/
But if you should dare/
To laugh at her hair/
You will soon feel her murderous rage!///
She thinks her outrageous coiffure/
Enhances her girlish allure/
She receives emanations/
From shortwave stations/
From Rangoon to Rancipur !///
She once had a husband who laughed/
At her coiffure- he must have been daft/
When his body was found/
He was thought to have drowned…/
But some say he “gave her a raft”…
Bookworm over 1 year ago
Her expression is, at best, rather dour / And hints at a disposition somewhat sour. / The artist tried every guile / To try and get just a bit of a smile. / But she just glared at him hour after hour after hour.
So her sittings were rather stuffy / Wearing that bonnet and sleeves so very puffy. / You can tell by her gaze, / She’s remembering the long-ago days, / When she was the fearless Vampire Slayer named Buffy.
Linguist over 1 year ago
Wilhelm Bendz was a pioneer of cut-n-paste portraiture. Sometimes things were not a good fit, as this 1830 painting illustrates.
Honorable Mention In The Banjo Toss Premium Member over 1 year ago
Cyclic fashions: That thing on her head could have as easily been on the head of some alien queen on “Star Trek.”
Blaidd Drwg Premium Member over 1 year ago
Looks like a Photo Cutout Board.
The Wolf In Your Midst over 1 year ago
I’m not saying she’s got a narrow neck, but she has to eat her peas one at a time.
FireAnt_Hater over 1 year ago
Ludicrously hilarious!
Buzzworld over 1 year ago
It’s hard to know where to begin there’s so many flaws. Kinda looks like Alan Alda.
anomaly over 1 year ago
Still waiting for her Prince Charming.
mokspr Premium Member over 1 year ago
And to think, I bet the rent money on her.
Ken Holman Premium Member over 1 year ago
Hazel always gets better cell-phone reception than the rest of us.
mabrndt Premium Member over 1 year ago
Portrait of Mette Sophie Fuglsang, the artist’s aunt:
Paste (including the quote marks)
"Category:Portrait paintings by Wilhelm Bendz" site=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 Mette, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this roughly square, A4 paper size painting.
Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3072 (February 1, 2023) 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). So far, 4 works by this artist have been used here, the January 25, 2020, strip bring the prior (my comment there points to the blog entry comment with the artist info I used to point to here).
stamps over 1 year ago
And that headdress hid her cauliflower ears.
mshaw Premium Member over 1 year ago
“La Tante de L’artiste,” 1830
d1234dick Premium Member over 1 year ago
the very first person from outer space, see her antenna head
Running Buffalo Premium Member over 1 year ago
That looks good enough. Now go put on the pink dress; and then the women’s clothing for the Sears catalog will be done.
Impkins Premium Member over 1 year ago
I wouldn’t mess with her! :)
gopher gofer over 1 year ago
oh, man, you can tell by the disembodied head that this one was photoshopped…
Call me Ishmael over 1 year ago
For Thursday:
That groundhog you got as a gift/
Was intended to give you a lift:/
If correctly prepared/
It might even be shared/
with some people you’ve frequently “stiffed”…
Exasperated999 over 1 year ago
Binaural deaf aids?
thebashfulone over 1 year ago
Living at the intersection of psoriasis and colitis.
harebell over 1 year ago
All the bad fashion ideas of the early 19th century combined on one poor woman.