Silent Elegance

The Lady with an Ermine is a stunning portrait painted by Leonardo da Vinci around 1489 to 1491. The subject is Cecilia Gallerani, the young mistress of Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan. Painted on a walnut wood panel using oil, this work is one of only four surviving portraits of women by Leonardo, alongside the Mona Lisa and a few others. Now housed in the Czartoryski Museum in Kraków, Poland, the painting is considered a national treasure. It was brought to Poland in 1798 by the Czartoryski family and remains part of the Princes Czartoryski Collection, which was acquired by the Polish government in 2016. This work can be seen at [The Czartoryski Museum,https://mnk.pl/artykul/leonardo-da-vinci-dama-z-gronostajem-mediolan-ok-1490]in [Krakow,https://krakowtop.org/the-lady-with-an-ermine-at-the-czartoryski-museum/]