The Collectors, by Philip Pullman

This is another short tale associated with Pullman's His Dark Materials series, published as a small book, illustrated by Tom Duxbury. This time the tale is set in another world, visited in the past for a short time by Marisa van Zee, known to Pullman's readers as Mrs. Coulter. Marisa was painted as a young girl, and her monkey daemon was rendered as a one foot high bronze statute of special malevolence. This story concerns the history of art collectors acquiring  the painting, or the statuette, seemingly then randomly acquiring the other, with ill results. The tale is self-contained, but one wishes there were more meat to it. The story was originally released as an audiobook in 2014. The printed book came out in 2022.