Circle of Philip Peter Roos, called Rosa da Tivoli

This large, decorative painting features a chubby toddler embracing an ivy-adorned sheep. The pair, sitting beside a blue-and-white porcelain bowl of assorted fruit, is juxtaposed with a small black dog who looks directly at the viewer, suggesting a dichotomy between the two animals and a possible allegorical choice between virtue, embodied by the docile sheep, and vice, represented by the haughty canine.