Gerrit Dou. A sleeping Dog beside a Terra-Cotta Jug, a Basket and a Pile of kindling Wood, 1650 (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston).

Oil on wood: 16.5 x 21.6 cm(!). Sold in 2005 by the Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation (Orange/ Texas). Then in the Eijk and Rose-Marie van Otterloo Collection (Naples, Massachusetts). Donated to the Museum of Fine Arts Boston in October 2017.

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