Serene painting

Template:Infobox Painting The Serene Painting was introduced in Animal Crossing: City Folk and is only available from Redd's. The painting is a copy of Leonardo da Vinci's oil-on-canvas portrait Lady with an Ermine - painted from 1489 to 1490, it depicts a woman holding an ermine- a stoat in its winter coat. Despite the title, it would appear that this "stoat" is actually a ferret.

This painting's Animal Crossing name was probably given due to the girl's peaceful, benign expression - the ferret's rather menacing look is impossible to see in detail in earlier games prior to New Horizons.

Stolen from Poland in 1939 by the Nazis, it was later recovered by the Allied forces after World War II and was returned to the Czartoryski Museum in Kraków. It remains there to this day.

Authenticity

In New Leaf, if the woman is holding a skinny cat rather than a plump ermine, it is a forgery.

In New Horizons, if the ermine has a black-and-white patterned coat rather than pure white, it is a forgery.

Museum exhibit description

"One of only four portraits of women painted by da Vinci, one of which is the "Mona Lisa." Some believe that the "ermine" is not actually an ermine, but rather a white ferret!"

— Museum Exhibit, Animal Crossing: New Horizons

Painting Information

City Folk

Item Name	Buy Price	Sell Price	Available From
Serene Painting	3,920 Bells*	490 Bells	Crazy Redd's

*3,920 Bells reflects the price Redd charges for the painting. The actual buy price (if purchased through the catalog) is 1,960 Bells.

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