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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.
ShaunthePr0n
Try know your meme, if you can't find this nene they might have an actual source
dlw45
Good luck with the search
TravisBickleHasIdeas
I made this!
Lifk
It could be gustave moreau may be.
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Thanks for your suggestion. Similar subject matter, but the styles differ too much. Pity!
Lierofox
"Are...are you close yet honey?"
Mack1986
Search and restrict time to more then 5 years ago
Moridin23
Looks like she gets him at his dootiest
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He's super spoopy.
Sohoyeh
Reverse google search?
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Been there, done that on multiple search engines. On the Web it exists primarily as a meme, which really obscures its origin.
BilboT34Baggins
Honestly: check super common textbooks on either that eta or that Era of art specifically. Something a super common imgurite like myself (1)
BilboT34Baggins
...would see in college or high-school. Might be hard to spot though, it may not be the focus of the painting.
IcyBagina
Upvoting for awareness. Bon chance Mrs. Dipshit!
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Thinking of changing my username now. Mrs./Dr. Dipshit seems to be sticking.
kraftkast
She's the one they call Dr. Dipshit; She's the one that makes art feel alright
dlmn8r
It's called "Gulla Gulla Island." By Taylor Swift
Flightyer
Did you try to reverse image search it and see the results?
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WoodrowWilson
Bosch?
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One of my first thoughts. Unfortunately the styles are not similar. :-(
WoodrowWilson
Yea true, was thinking that as well. In some ways similar but the the paint style not. I thought maybe a hidden detail somewhere.
aSortofMildlyUpsetCanadian
looks like a painting by Hieronymus Bosch, of his version of Hell
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I know, right? His paintings are like a Where's Waldo of fucked-up shit.
WarpPig
great now I want a bosch on my wall
ClandestineIntestine
"When Gynos Ruled the Earth" by Giorgione
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I'm not finding a painting by Giorgione by that title...could it be called something else?