Moody painting

"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

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.

Authenticity

In Animal Crossing: New Leaf, there are no forgeries of this painting.

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  The genuine Moody Painting, as it appears in New Leaf

Painting information

City Folk

Item Name	Buy Price	Sell Price	Available From
Moody 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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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.