Boy with a Black Spaniel
Artist: François Hubert Drouais (French, 1727–1775)
Original Dimensions: 25 3/8" x 21"
Location: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
About Artwork: (ca. 1767) "The art critic Denis Diderot rarely praised the popular portraitist Drouais, but admitted that he “paints children well; he infuses their eyes with life, transparency, a moist richness, swimming so that they seem to gaze at you and smile at you at the same time.” Here Drouais paired such eyes with those of a puppy dangling in the child’s arms. This is probably an autograph replica of a painting shown at the Salon of 1767 and dated 1766." - (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

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