DYCK Anton van (After) 1599 - 1641. Portrait of a child with cherries. Original oil on canvas. On the reverse, three small pieces of reinforcement; small accident at top right; two small restorations at top right and bottom left. On the reverse of the original canvas, an old annotation François Joachim de Bernis. H. 46 - L. 37 cm. Related to the painting by Antoine van Dyck, Portrait d'un homme de qualité avec son fils from the former Louis XIV collection in the Musée du Louvre (Inv. 1642). Here, the painter, probably active in the last third of the 18th century, has made a few variations, placing cherries in the white cloth the child is holding in his left hand, and folding his right hand under his ruff. The old annotation on the reverse refers to François - Joachim de Pierre, Cardinal de Bernis (1715 - 1794), French ambassador to Venice and Rome, and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs under King Louis XV.