Boy with Dog 19th Century Folk Art "Sandpaper" Painting painted animal 2 7/8" l x 7/8"

2 7/8" l x 7/8" d

the drawing unpacks as a wonderful portrait of impotence and thwarted desire

linen it seems

and nice big ones too

There is some faint text

Boy with Dog 19th Century Folk Art "Sandpaper" Painting painted animal 2 7/8" l x 7/8"This marvelous thing is an antique "sandpaper painting" a technique popular in the mid 19th century, of creating charcoal drawings on paper coated with marble dust, which creates a surface with a fine grit like sandpaper. These are a pretty fascinating genre, typically monochromatic and most often depicting Hudson River landscapes, though one occasionally finds portraits and examples incorporating color, like this one. These most often were done by