Imgur, please help me find the original painting and artist!

Dec 15, 2016 6:46 PM

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I'm nearly finished with my dissertation (18th-century literary representations of pregnancy and childbirth in England) and this picture is part of it. Yes, it's only one little bitty piece out of one chapter, but it's visually impactful and it really emphasizes the argument I'm making in a particular section. Trying to find the original image--the whole painting, with artist name--has been plaguing me for a couple years now. I gotta cite that shit.

I know you've seen this image as a meme. "You cum yet?" or "TFW she says Don't stop, I'm almost there." It's hilarious, sure, but unfortunately its life as a meme has made it almost impossible for me to find the original on the Web. Reverse Image Search is useless.

I've worked with art historians at my university. Nothin'. I've done every thinkable variation of keywords in Google image search. Nada. I've scoured the online archives of museums and databases. Zilch. I think it's late Renaissance or early neoclassical. Without at least the artist's name, it's proving suuuuper difficult to find the whole work of art.

And so I turn to you, people of Imgur. I know some of you are scholars and art geeks. Do you have any suggestions as to how I might find the original painting and artist's name? Any resources you might know of? Are you psychic and can just tell me what the painting is? Are you in fact the original artist who has somehow survived these last four hundred years (and what are your secrets)?

Help me, Imgur. You're my only hope.

Try know your meme, if you can't find this nene they might have an actual source

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Good luck with the search

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I made this!

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It could be gustave moreau may be.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Thanks for your suggestion. Similar subject matter, but the styles differ too much. Pity!

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

"Are...are you close yet honey?"

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Search and restrict time to more then 5 years ago

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Looks like she gets him at his dootiest

9 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 0

He's super spoopy.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Reverse google search?

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Been there, done that on multiple search engines. On the Web it exists primarily as a meme, which really obscures its origin.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Honestly: check super common textbooks on either that eta or that Era of art specifically. Something a super common imgurite like myself (1)

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

...would see in college or high-school. Might be hard to spot though, it may not be the focus of the painting.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Upvoting for awareness. Bon chance Mrs. Dipshit!

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Thinking of changing my username now. Mrs./Dr. Dipshit seems to be sticking.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

She's the one they call Dr. Dipshit; She's the one that makes art feel alright

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It's called "Gulla Gulla Island." By Taylor Swift

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Did you try to reverse image search it and see the results?

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Bosch?

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

One of my first thoughts. Unfortunately the styles are not similar. :-(

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Yea true, was thinking that as well. In some ways similar but the the paint style not. I thought maybe a hidden detail somewhere.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

looks like a painting by Hieronymus Bosch, of his version of Hell

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I know, right? His paintings are like a Where's Waldo of fucked-up shit.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

great now I want a bosch on my wall

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

"When Gynos Ruled the Earth" by Giorgione

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I'm not finding a painting by Giorgione by that title...could it be called something else?

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