''Cardinal de Granvelle's Dwarf'' or ''Cardinal de Gravelle's Dwarf Holding a Large Dog'' is a c.1560 oil on panel painting by Antonis Mor. It shows a person with

dwarfism Dwarfism is a condition wherein an organism is exceptionally small, and mostly occurs in the animal kingdom. In humans, it is sometimes defined as an adult height of less than , regardless of sex; the average adult height among people with dw ...

in the household of

Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle (20 August 151721 September 1586), Comte de La Baume Saint Amour, was a Bisontin (Free Imperial City of Besançon) statesman, made a cardinal, who followed his father as a leading minister of the Spanish Habsburg ...

, resting one hand on a dog (whose collar bears Perrenot de Granvelle's coat of arms, only identified as such in 1899) and holding a sceptre in another. It formed part of superintendent Nicolas Fouquet's collection before being seized from him by Louis XIV and is now in the Louvre Museum (INV 1583). Gabrielle Bartz and Eberhard König, ''Le Musée du Louvre'', éditions Place des Victoires, Paris, 2005, , p. 478

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