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Sitting Dog Scratching Himself, c. 1525-1530, Cleveland Museum of Art: European Painting and Sculpture

Size: Overall: 5.8 cm (2 5/16 in.) Medium: bronze

River Valley, Hercules Seghers, 1620, Mauritshuis Museum

A landscape with a tumbling river and rugged boulders. Seghers painted this imaginary landscape with fanciful brushstrokes, creating a grand and mysterious landscape on this small panel. The effect is reinforced by the passers-by, who appear very small and insignificant in the overwhelming presence of nature. We know of only eleven paintings of mountainous fantasy landscapes and topographical cityscapes by Seghers. But there will have been more than that – Rembrandt alone had eight in his possession.

Medway, Massachusetts, George Inness, 1869, Saint Louis Art Museum: American Art

Animal head carved in the round, ca. 8th–7th century B.C., Metropolitan Museum of Art: Ancient Near Eastern Art

Rogers Fund, 1961 Size: 0.55 x 0.59 x 0.91 in. (1.4 x 1.5 x 2.31 cm) Medium: Ivory