Seems familiar... anyone knows the name of the original painting and/or if there was one?

Original can be found here

Courtesy of the French Wikipedia. Sorry for the sloppy link, I'm not aware of how to insert links into plain text.

edit Thanks Moonspeaker.

Enclose the desired text for the link in quotation marks ("like this") and follow with a colon (:), then your URL. Like so.

oh man, is.. a bit strange and amused