Serene painting

Serene Painting
Real-world counterpart
Lady with an Ermine
Year		Unknown
Artist		Leonardo da Vinci
Main appearances
DnM DnM+ AC DnMe+ iQue WW CF NL NH
Name in other languages  たおやかなめいが  婀娜的名画  Toile royale  Retrato regio  Quadro simbolico  Безмятежная картина  아늑한 명화  婀娜的名畫  Toile royale  Retrato regio  Edelgemälde  Serene schilderij

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.

Painting information

City Folk

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

In New Horizons

Real artwork

Forgery

Lady with an Ermine
Leonardo da Vinci, circa 1490
Oil on wood panel

Museum 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!
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, 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.

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