Eugene Petit was born in Paris in 1839. He specialised in painting genre and still life, in particular flowers and fruit. He did, however, paint a small collection of sporting dog pictures as the one shown. He was a pupil of Eleve and Dieterle.

Exhibited: Salon de Paris; 1863, 1873, received a 3rd class medal

Museums: Carcassonne, Compiegne, Courtrai, Rouen and Saint-Etienne