Animal Crossing: New Horizons’ Quaint Painting is based on an artwork called The Milkmaid by Johannes Vermeer. Also known as The Kitchen Maid, this painting was created in the mid-1600s, and it is currently located at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. When trying to determine if the Quaint Painting in ACNH is real or fake, players will need to look to what the woman is pouring from her container.
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More specifically, if the woman is pouring a large amount of milk then the Quaint Painting is a forgery. Alternatively, if she is pouring a small amount of milk then it is the genuine article, and players that are trying to fill up their art galleries in Animal Crossing: New Horizons should snatch it up at once. For those fans that would like a visual, this image highlights the differences between a fake and real version of ACNH’s Quaint Painting:
To note, the Quaint Painting is not the only artwork in Animal Crossing: New Horizons that is based on a painting by Vermeer, as his Girl with a Pearl Earring appears in the game as well. Called the Wistful Painting in ACNH, there is also a fake version of this artwork, and Animal Crossing: New Horizons players will need to look at the shape of the subject’s earring if they want to avoid buying a forgery.
That said, there are certainly worse things than buying a fake painting in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, as it is still possible to privately display these forged artworks. However, fans that reference the image above should have no trouble obtaining a real Quaint Painting in ACNH, which will put them one step closer to finishing Blathers’ brand new art exhibition.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons is out now exclusively for the Nintendo Switch.
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