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How much is Lady with an Ermine worth?

Lady with an Ermine is not for sale: it is held by the Czartoryski Museum, so it has no market price. The closest guide is Leonardo's highest documented sale: $450.3 million for Salvator Mundi, at Christie's New York in 2017. Prints and posters of it usually sell for $5–$250, and hand-painted copies for $100–$800.

Artist: Leonardo da Vinci
Date: 1490
Medium: Oil on panel
Held by: Czartoryski Museum

Leonardo's record$450MSalvator Mundi · 2017

Own a print or copy of Lady with an Ermine?

Most copies of Lady with an Ermine in homes are prints, posters or hand-painted copies. They sell as decorative pieces, not as Leonardo's work. These are the resale ranges Art Scanner's value estimate starts from.

Poster or unframed print$5–$60

Framed decorative or museum-shop print$40–$250

Large framed archival print$150–$800

Hand-painted copy$100–$800

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About the painting

The Lady with an Ermine is a portrait painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci. Dated to c. 1489–1491, the work is painted in oils on a panel of walnut wood. Its subject is Cecilia Gallerani, a mistress of Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan; Leonardo was painter to the Sforza court in Milan at the time of its execution. It is the second of only four surviving portraits of women painted by Leonardo, the others being Ginevra de' Benci, La Belle Ferronnière and the Mona Lisa.

More on the artist: the most expensive Leonardo ever sold, and where the famous ones hang.

Leonardo next to other famous artists

Each artist's highest documented sale, from the same research. Leonardo: $450.3 million for Salvator Mundi, in 2017.

Leonardo$450MSalvator Mundi · 2017
Klimt$236MPortrait of Elisabeth Lederer · 2025
Rembrandt$199MThe Standard Bearer · 2022
Seurat$149MLes Poseuses, Ensemble · 2022
Cézanne$138MLa Montagne Sainte-Victoire · 2022
Munch$120MThe Scream · 2012
Van Gogh$117MVerger avec cyprès (Orchard with Cypresses) · 2022
Monet$111MMeules (Haystacks) · 2019
Gauguin$106MMaternité II · 2022

Nominal US dollars as reported at the time of sale, buyer's premium included where the source includes it.

Why it has no price

Lady with an Ermine is held by the Czartoryski Museum. Works in public collections are not sold, so no one can put a market price on them. Sale records of other works by the same artist are the closest guide to what it would fetch.

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Questions

How much is Lady with an Ermine worth?

Lady with an Ermine is not for sale: it is held by the Czartoryski Museum, so it has no market price. The closest guide is Leonardo's highest documented sale: $450.3 million for Salvator Mundi, at Christie's New York in 2017. Prints and posters of it usually sell for $5–$250, and hand-painted copies for $100–$800.

How much is a print of Lady with an Ermine worth?

Most prints and posters of Lady with an Ermine sell for $5–$250, with framed ones at the top of that range, and hand-painted copies for $100–$800. They are priced as decorative pieces, not as Leonardo's work.

Is Lady with an Ermine for sale?

No. It is held by the Czartoryski Museum. Works in public collections are not sold, so they have no market price.

What is Leonardo's most expensive work?

Salvator Mundi, which sold for $450.3 million at Christie's New York in 2017. Prices are nominal US dollars as reported at the time.

Where is Lady with an Ermine?

Lady with an Ermine (1490, oil on panel) is held by the Czartoryski Museum.