A scent hound, the Artois was breed in northern France as a pack hunter.

The Artois is a medium-sized, muscular dog about 53 to 58 centimetres (21 to 23 in) high at the withers and 28 to 30 kilograms (62 to 66 lb).

The coat is short and typically dark fawn tricolor, "similar to a hare or badger".

[5] Another prominent breeder contemporary to Levair, Mallard, also bred Artois, but his dogs were much less similar to the historical descriptions of the breed.

[5] In the 1970s a few aficionados,[2] in particular Audrechy, decided to reconstitute the breed from a few remaining specimens, including those of the Prince de Conde.