People spot something amusing about The Scream painting - and it's hard to unsee

It's one of the most iconic paintings out there and is instantly recognisable... or so you would think.

We're talking of course about Edvard Munch's composition, The Scream, or Der Schrei der Natur, which features a figure, standing in front of a striking orange background, holding his head in his hands, screaming.

However it seems not everyone knows what the original really looks like.

A Reddit user shared a reimagined version of the artwork on the site and hilariously some people didn't even realise it wasn't the real painting - can you spot the difference?

The imitation on Reddit saw the figure's face changed to that of a dog.

It was captioned: "Newsflash 'The Scream' has always been a floppy eared spaniel."

Many people commented to say that they wouldn't be able to "unsee" the dog now and had never noticed before how similar to a spaniel the figure looked.

One person said: "I won't be able to unsee that."

Another wrote: "Can't unsee."

A third added that from now on they'd always see a "dang spaniel" when they looked at the piece of artwork.