Attributed to Michel-François Dandré-Bardon (Aix-en-Provence 1700-1785 Paris)

Apparently a study with differences for the dog represented on the left in Dandré-Bardon's Selene and Endymion now in the Museum of Fine Arts, San Francisco (D. Chol, Michel-François Dandré-Bardon ou l'apogée de la peinture en Provence au XVIIIe siècle, Aix-en-Provence, 1987, no. 3). The painting, dated 1726, is one of the artist's earliest known works and was executed while Dandré-Bardon was in Rome.