THAT IS PRICELESS

Carl Wilhelmson, Swedish

Poppy Hated Hat Hair, So She Scrounged Up a Few Electromagnets and Created “The Hoverhat,” ca. 1910s

Oil on canvas

James Henry Beard, American

Albert Had Never Known the Identity of His Father, But As He Grew Older, He Increasingly Suspected Santa Claus, 1859

Oil on canvas

Carl Wilhlemson, Swedish

Three Women Painters, One of Whom Has Busted Out “The Robot,” 1902

Oil on canvas

Jean-Léon Gérôme, French

Exhibitionist Water Fowl Strutting Around Stork Naked, ca. 1889

Oil on canvas

Ditlev Blunck, Danish

The Inaugural Attempt Was So Utterly Disappointing, It Would Be 150 Years Before Someone Took Another Group Selfie, 1846

Oil on canvas

Jean-Jules-Antoine Lecomte du Nouÿ, French

“You Know, He Hasn’t Summoned One of Us Concubines in Over 3 Days Now. I’m Starting To Wonder If Maybe We’ve Been Replaced By AI,” Date Unknown

Oil on canvas

Elizabeth Jane Gardner Bouguereau, American

“Do You Like the Dove? I Thought It Was the Perfect Gift When You Told Me You Were an Aspiring Magician.”

“MUS-ician.”

*LONG PAUSE. IN THE DISTANCE, A DOG BARKS.

“Receipt’s in the Cage.” 1883

Oil on canvas

Henry Herbert La Thangue, English

It’s the Hot New Fitness Trend That’s Sweeping the Nation: Pail-ates!, Date Unknown

Oil on canvas

 Dora Wahlroos, Finnish

Artist Creating Semicolon Sculpture for the Metropolitan Museum of Punctuation, 1892

Oil on canvas