Boy with a Black Spaniel, Oil on canvas, Oval, 25 3/8 x 21 in. (64. 5 x 53. 3 cm), Paintings, Francois Hubert Drouais (French, Paris 1727?1775 Paris), The picture is an autograph replica of a work (location unknown) that is fully signed and dated 1766 and was exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1767. A critic of the Salon described that first version as a portrait of a boy with an ebony-colored dog with jet black eyes