Author: Steve Melcher

Charles Willson Peale, American

“Great Moments in Phallic Portraiture” (Page 517), 1788

Oil on canvas

William Henry Bartlett, English

“Okay Darling, Just So We’re Clear About Our Agreement: You Don’t Have To Help Me Row, and I Don’t Have To Help You Pay For College. Deal?,” 1880

Oil on canvas

Benjamin Franklin Rawson, Argentine

Eddie Munster As a Blonde, 1868

Oil on canvas

Jean Béraud, French

“My, What a Sporty Little Convertible! I Went With the SUV, Because I Needed Room in the Back For All My Kids’ Soccer Crap,” ca. 1880

Oil on panel

Walther Gamerith, Austrian

Winifred Had Taken To Sleeping in Formal Wear Just in Case She Had That Dream About the Met Gala Again, 1936

Oil on canvas

Bartolomeo Passarotti, Italian

“It Keeps Pigeons From Landing on My Head. Why? Does It Look Weird?,” ca. 1580

Oil on canvas

Johann Gottfried Auerbach, German

“If the Baby Asks For His Rattle, You Never Saw Me. Got It?,” ca. 1730

Oil on canvas

Jean Béraud, French

“…So Finally, the Stunned Agent Says, ‘Wow, That’s Quite an Act. What Do You Call Yourselves?’ And the Father Says…’The Aristocrats!,'” 1882

Oil on canvas