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Painting of a sleeping nude man on a red cloth beside a spaniel, with a ladder and small figures rising into a stormy sky at upper left.

Jacob's Dream (Jacobs droom) by Ary de Vois

A nude man sleeps stretched across an orange-red cloth draped over a rock, one arm bent behind his head, beside a brown-and-white spaniel. Behind him, under a dark wooded canopy and a stormy sky, a ladder rises at upper left with tiny figures climbing along its rungs.

Artist
Ary de Vois
Date
1660-1680
Medium
Source
Rijksmuseum
Size
4000 × 2914 px
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Public domain · Rijksmuseum marks it Public Domain Mark; made by 1680.
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: Public Domain Mark (Rijksmuseum, image license https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

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