Jean-Simon Berthélemy/Jean-Baptiste Mauzaisse, French
“Here You Go, Dude. It’s Called ‘Fire.’ It’ll Come in Handy When You’re Cooking Your Food, Lighting Your Villages, and Requesting Encores at Fleetwood Mac Concerts,” 1802/re-painted in 1826
Oil on canvas
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Info, or links that point to more info, about the first artist can be found here (if truncated, can be read in full for free on Fridays), and here, perhaps in addition to what's in his Wikipedia page (Google translated French Wikipedia page has more). Info, or links that point to more info, about the second artist can be found here (if truncated, can be read in full for free on Fridays), and here, perhaps in addition to what's in his Wikipedia page (Google translated French Wikipedia page has more).
/// That’s Prometheus floating below
Great Athena, who’s running the show.
It requires a whole crowd,
spawning man from a cloud,
with dim torch (from D-batteries low).
/// This first man has no woman to please.
He’s his own (and his only) “main squeeze.”
He was told “Get a grip!”
(There was no need to strip.)
Now he’s gotten Peyronie’s disease.
/// In this painting, an odd design fact
is that none of the three interact.
No one looks at a face,
they each stare into space.
There’s two painters, and both of them slacked.