Cardinal's Pet

Joei Yoshikuni (next post down) isn't the first priest to teach his pet pooch to sit up and beg. Here's an anonymous cardinal doing the same thing. This detail is from a sumptuous painting Education by prize-winning French artist Victor Marais-Milton, a member of the Salon of French Artists where he exhibited his work from 1892. He specialized in cardinals at play in their palatial homes. Click the title link for a "virtual exhibition".