an unusually beady eye for a dog

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Power:  even little kids know when they have it, so it's no surprise that in this portrait of Kaiser Joseph I at the Age Of Six Years, with a Dog our young potentate sizes us up with assurance.  What's unusual, though I do run across it every so often in portrayals of the politically placed, is the look on his spaniel's face.  Here's a closeup.

Um, hello.

The artist, Benjamin Block (1631-1690) was a German Baroque portrait painter, well traveled, well connected, and eventually knighted by Leopold I, the father of this boy we see here.  If you want to see how this cool underaged customer turned out, read this.