Exceptional Antique Pencil Drawing, Portrait of a Boy, 14x11" Frame, Signed 1847 spaniel Use your imagination

Use your imagination

75" rectangle with canted corners

made in France

Oil painting on stretched linen canvas

but it's superb on the stretchers we've found it on and will be a favorite of anyone who collects needle arts

Exceptional Antique Pencil Drawing, Portrait of a Boy, 14x11" Frame, Signed 1847 spaniel Use your imaginationOne of the most elegant portraits ever, this pencil drawing (original) is signed simply "Julio" and dated 1847. No reference to who this handsome young boy with the soulful eyes and casual pose is, but there is a reference stamp on back telling us who the framers were, noting it to have been Lequien Blondeaux, framer "A La Palette de Rubens" located in Lille, France, so perhaps one can begin the research from there. The drawing is in the manner of