When Hell freezes over and Tolstoy learns to skate

John Collier's 1894 painting “The Devil skating when Hell freezes over” has such an impeccable ironic aura that it's hard to believe it was created more than a century ago, and rightfully so because it was not, neither in 1894 nor by John Collier, or mayhap was, chort knows—the gossip web is so wonderfully confusing at times!

"The Devil skating when Hell freezes over" by some John Collier, sometime

Comrade A stumbled upon this painting by sheer accident, details of which he prefers not to disclose...