Boy with a Black Spaniel

A curly-haired boy in a lace collar holds a small black dog, in an oval frame. Portrait preset, 23 threads.

Size

117 × 150 stitches; on 14-count: 21.2 × 27.2 cm, on 18-count: 16.5 × 21.2 cm

Threads

23 DMC colours, full crosses only

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 436217 — the work on the museum site

Licence

Chart — © 2026 Crossette, CC BY 4.0: free to stitch, print and share with a link to crossette.org. The original is in the public domain (CC0); the museum image comes from its open collection.

PDF to print · 352 KB OXS for software · 679 KB

OXS is an open chart format that many cross stitch programs open. The Crossette app opens it too — it’s in development; the beta comes after Apple’s review. Colours on screen and in print are approximate; go by the thread codes.