Mysterious painting

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The mysterious painting in Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Real-world counterpart
Isle of the Dead
Year 1883
Artist Arnold Böcklin
Main appearances

Name in other languages
 なぞめいためいが
 神秘的名画
 Toile ténébreuse
 Cuadro tenebroso
 Quadro misterioso
 Загадочная картина
 미스터리한 명화
 神秘的名畫
 Toile ténébreuse
 Cuadro tenebroso
 Rätselgemälde
 Mysterieus schilderij

The mysterious painting is a painting in Animal Crossing: New Horizons introduced in the 1.2.0 April Free Update. It is based on Arnold Böcklin's Isle of the Dead.

Art details

In New Horizons

Main article: Item:Mysterious painting (New Horizons)
Mysterious painting
Isle of The Dead
Arnold Böcklin, 1883
Oil on wood


Museum description A small boat carrying a corpse glides quietly over a still sea to an island of graves surrounded by cliffs. The air of this piece by symbolist painter Böcklin is chilling, but also somehow calm. Böcklin worked here to capture not what he could see, but some of humanity's inner contemplations.
Buy price  4,980 Bells
Sell price  1,245 Bells
Obtain from  Jolly Redd's Treasure Trawler
Authenticity This painting is always genuine.
Furniture size 2.0 x 1.0


Real-world information

Isle of the Dead

Isle of the Dead was produced in several different versions. The version that is used in Animal Crossing: New Horizons is the third one, which was painted in 1883 and is now exhibited in the Berlin State Museum.


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