THAT IS PRICELESS

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 I’m Starting To Wonder If Maybe We’ve Been Replaced By AI,” Date Unknown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

Adrien Thevenot, French

“Listen, It’s My Mistake. I Know the Party Invitation Said ‘Casual Attire.’ But Let Me See If I Can Find You and Hunter Some Bigger Towels,” Date Unknown

Oil on canvas

Ottilie Wilhelmine Roederstein, Swiss

“Yes, Sir, Your Portrait Is Incomplete, But I Have a Good Excuse. You See, My Assistant Didn’t Come In Today, and He’s My Right-Hand Man,” 1887

Oil on canvas

Thomas Ralph Spence, English

“Well Yes, That’s What People Say. But Based on the Current Exchange Rate, I’m Actually Worth 2.327 in the Bush,” Date Unknown

Oil on canvas

Johannes Vermeer, Dutch

Girl With a Pearl Earring…AND a Pearl Necklace (She’s Getting Really Good at Shoplifting), 1663-65

Oil on canvas