Exceptional Antique Pencil Drawing, Portrait of a Boy, 14x11" Frame, Signed 1847 spaniel both inside and out

both inside and out

Oil painting on stretched linen canvas

though in fact they don't have anything quite like this

I don't think it is 16k or 18k

Use your imagination

Exceptional Antique Pencil Drawing, Portrait of a Boy, 14x11" Frame, Signed 1847 spaniel both inside and outOne 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