Moody painting

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The Sower.jpg
Real-world counterpart
The Sower
Year Unknown
Artist Millet
Main appearances

Name in other languages
 ちからづよいめいが
 强健的名画
 Toile puissante
 Retrato joven
 Quadro possente
 Энергичная картина
 힘찬 명화
 強健的名畫
 Toile puissante
 Retrato joven
 Kraftgemälde
 Noeste schilderij


The Moody Painting is a copy of Millet's painting, The Sower. Available in City Folk, it is the second of Millet's paintings to be featured, the other being the Common Painting. As this painting is available only from Crazy Redd's, along with its forgery.

A pioneering work of Realism, this oil painting, completed in 1850, shows a glum-looking peasant sowing seeds in a field. This image of poverty enraged the upper classes of France at the time, who criticized his work for showing how workers struggled- many paintings at this time expressed an idyllic middle-class life, full of color and warmth.

The Animal Crossing name for the painting is very appropriate- the dark colors and exhausted expression of the man serve to evoke dismay in his condition, and expose the hardship and simplicity of rural life in 19th century France.
The Sower is now on display in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts.

Art details

In City Folk

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Buy price  3,920 Bells
Sell price  490 Bells[nb 1]
Obtain from  Redd
Authenticity Can be a forgery
Furniture size 1.0 x 1.0
  1. Sells for 10 Bells if it is a forgery.


In New Horizons

Moody painting
The Sower
Jean-François Millet, circa 1850
Oil on canvas


Museum description Millet painted this piece of a farmer sowing wheat seeds in a field after moving to the countryside from Paris. If the piece reminds you of Van Gogh, that's likely because Van Gogh himself was inspired by it!
Buy price  4,980 Bells
Sell price  1,245 Bells
Obtain from  Jolly Redd's Treasure Trawler
Authenticity Unknown
Furniture size 1.0 x 1.0

Authenticity

In New Leaf and New Horizons, there are no forgeries of this painting.

Museum exhibit description

"This painting features a small town where the artist once lived. He is said to have influenced van Gogh."
— Museum Exhibit, Animal Crossing: New Leaf


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