THROWBACK THURSDAY: #1767 (8/27/17) Raden Saleh, Javanese “It’s a Lovely Anniversary Gift, Honey, But I Thought We’d Agreed We Weren’t Doing Pheasants This Year,” 1844 Oil on canvas
THROWBACK THURSDAY: #789 (3/6/12) Louis Gallait, Belgian The Gorton’s Fisherman, Breaking It to His Wife That He’s Banging Mrs. Paul, 1848 Oil on panel
THROWBACK THURSDAY: #1847 (12/14/17) Jules Arsène Garnier, French “You Know, I’m Going To Go Out On a Limb and Guess That Your Husband DOES Check Your Texts,” 1876 Oil on canvas
MASTERPIECE #2428 Charles Venneman, Belgian Couple Playing “Pass the Candle” (the G-Rated Version), 1847 Oil on panel
MASTERPIECE #2421 Nils Andersson, Swedish “Check It Out, Babe. I Just Found This Thing on the Beach With My Awesome New Metal Detector!,” 1846 Oil on canvas
MASTERPIECE #2406 Joseph-Désiré Court, French “Oh,” Thought Queen Caroline. “So That’s Where My Selfie Stick Went,” 1841 Oil on canvas
MASTERPIECE #2387 Alexei Venetsianov, Russian “Bacchus Totally Hogged the Bathroom and I Didn’t Get To Shower This Morning. Is It Obvious? Be Honest,” 1832 Oil on canvas
MASTERPIECE #2383 Benjamin Blake, English “Honey, I Thought You Said You Were Coming in Here To Play a Game With the Kids, Not Play WITH Some Game With the Kids,” 1826 Oil on panel
MASTERPIECE #2379 Carl Joseph Begas, German In Retrospect, Margaret Wished She’d Re-Scheduled the Portrait Session For Some Day She HADN’T Admitted To Having An Affair, 1816 Oil on canvas
MASTERPIECE #2376 Eugène Delacroix, French Ben and Julie Had Never Really Considered the Downside To Not Having Glass in Your Windows. Until the Day the Bees Came. 1823 Oil on canvas