That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for January 01, 2019

It was the best New Year’s Eve the old man had had in a long time.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

“At Mom’s Cafe, we keep it real.”

Once a sucker, always a sucker…

Bon appetits!

“These guys never catch on that it ain’t the Fountain of Youth, but it pays the bills.”

“Lady Madonna; geezer at your breast…”

He was an old codger, but he liked to keep abreast of things.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

“Feed me”.

“I can remember when it use to be this long…..ahh, those were the days!”

A vivid illustration of the circle of life.

I’m so old, that I don’t know what to do next???

“What’s for dessert?”

Homeless guy claiming to be doctor, says he forgot his stethoscope.

That’s not grandpa. But it doesn’t matter if you’re willing. You seem willing.

Oh boy! Whole milk.

The woman, Pero, is breastfeeding her father, Cimon, who is imprisoned, sentenced to desth by starvation.

The story is told by Valerius Maximus, a Roman historian. It may be more based on the love of a good story than on fact, as so many good stories are. There’s a similar story in which it’s a mother and daughter.

There’s a quick hit on the story and details on the provenance on the Getty’s site at www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/127301/jean-baptiste-greuze-cimon-and-pero-roman-charity-french-about-1767/ and a quite good wiki at https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Charity.

I’m curious whether John Steinbeck knew this story, because the same basic idea occurs at the end of The Grapes of Wrath—a woman saves an adult man by breastfeeding him. In Steinbeck’s story they aren’t family.

By the way, that Wiki gives an interesting gallery of treatments of the story by lots of other artists. Looking them over you can’t help noticing that Greuze stole the whole thing from Rubens. Composition, poses, coloration, facial expressions, all deftly copied—not slavishly, to be sure, but copied.

Looking over the bio at https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Baptiste_Greuze it seems pretty clear that Greuze was basically a very talented hack who could have made himself into a genuinely important artist, but couldn’t be bothered.

That’s what I like about the new year, there is always hope.

I was really hoping for a cold beer. Should I try the other breast?

Grampa Amos was the titular head of the clan.

That is one “ripped” geezer ! I think he’s secretly on a low-carb, high protein diet, and doing pushups all night.

She looks bored….or daydreaming

“Ah, c’mon, babe. Just close your eyes and think of England. In any case, it’ll be over quickly.”

Cimon and Pero: “Roman Charity”: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jean-Baptiste_Greuze_(French_-_Cimon_and_Pero-_%22Roman_Charity%22_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg 

has info and links that point to info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting. The strip coloration has faded from the scene.

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/greuze_jean-baptiste.html 

https://www.the-athenaeum.org/people/detail.php?ID=4931 

https://www.wga.hu/bio_m/g/greuze/biograph.html 

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6808/jean-baptiste-greuze 

http://www.artnet.com/artists/jean-baptiste-greuze/biography 

http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/artists/580/jean-baptiste-greuze-french-1725-1805/ 

https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/grze/hd_grze.htm 

https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/literature-and-arts/european-art-1600-present-biographies/jean-baptiste-greuze 

all have info about this artist, perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the first URL. So far, 4 works by him have been used here (5 times, with the last now repeated as a Classic). 

https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2013/11/18?comments=visible 

has its prior appearance, which while my comment is still there, with the line breaks removed, its 15+who-knows-how-many-in-my-other-comments-there hyperlinks remain inactive. ?&@#!#%&!

Again, a slightly larger strip image is shown by clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s A PRICELESS CLASSIC (2013) (December 31, 2018) blog entry (was MASTERPIECE #931), accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

Emily,disliked the old man but it had been a long time for her and his body wasn’t that bad

My hospitals have “pump rooms” for employees who are nursing by multiple definitions.

There are certain advantages to being filthy rich when you’re a dirty old man.

“I really just wanted some milk for my cereal…”

Breast fed children tend to do better in the intellectual department. Some feed even to 6 years old in some cases.