Moody painting

Moody Painting
Real-world counterpart
The Sower
Year		Unknown
Artist		Millet
Main appearances
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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 19^th century France.
The Sower is now on display in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts.

Art details

City Folk

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

In New Horizons

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

Authenticity

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

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  The genuine Moody Painting, as it appears in New Leaf

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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The copyright for it is most likely owned by either the publisher/producer and/or artist(s) producing the work in question. It is believed that the use of web-resolution images of artwork for commentary on the scene or object in question qualifies as fair use under United States copyright law. See Wikipedia:Fair use for more information.