How to Spot Fake Art in Animal Crossing New Horizons

How do you spot Fake Art in Animal Crossing New Horizons? You can buy works of art from Redd, but it won't always be the genuine article. Here's how to spot fake art.

Like previous games, the way to get artwork for the Museum is from the black market. Redd is a shady dealer who will come to your town in his Treasure Trawler, parked on the secret beach. He'll have a few pieces of artwork for your museum, though most of it are counterfeits. The Museum will only take real articles.

Luckily, spotting the fake art is easy. All of the art that Redd sells are based on real world pieces. You can spot the differences by cross-referencing the in-game model with the real world piece. You can examine the paintings closer and get a better look. Some of the painting are obviously fake but some are more subtle. There are also painting that are always genuine.

How to Spot Fake Art in Animal Crossing New Horizons

There is one catch: the name of the piece in-game won't be what the piece is called in real life. This will reward you art history scholars, but for the layman you'll have to be careful. Here are all 30 paintings and what sets the fake ones apart.

• Academic Painting (Da Vinci - Vetruvian Man)
  The fake has a coffee stain on the upper right.

• Amazing Painting (Rembrandt - The Night Watch)
  The figure in the center is missing his hat in the fake one.

• Basic Painting (Gainsborough - The Blue Boy)
  The figure has flat bangs.

• Calm Painting (Seurat - A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte)
  This painting is always genuine.

• Common Painting (Millet - The Gleanders)
  This painting is always genuine.

• Detailed Painting (Ito - Rooster and Hen with Hydrangeas)
  The flowers are purple instead of blue in the fake one.

• Dynamic Painting (Hokusai - Great Wave off Kanagawa)
  This painting is always genuine.

• Famous Painting (Da Vinci - Mona Lisa)
  The fake one has raised eyebrows.

• Flowery Painting (Van Gogh - Sunflowers)
  This painting is always genuine.

• Glowing Painting (Turner - The Fighting Temeraire)
  This painting is always genuine.

• Graceful Painting (Hishikawa - Beauty Looking Back)
  The figure takes up more space in the fake one. The top third of the piece should be blank. There is also a rumored variation where the figure is facing left instead of right.

• Jolly Painting (Arcimboldo - Summer)
  The figure is missing the sprout on the chest in the fake one.

• Moody Painting (Millet - The Sower)
  This painting is always genuine.

• Moving Painting (Botticelli - The Birth of Venus)
  The fake one is missing trees on the top right.

• Mysterious Painting (Böcklin - Isle of the Dead)
  This painting is always genuine.

• Nice Painting (Manet - Young Flautist
  This painting is always genuine.

• Perfect Painting (Cézanne - Apples and Oranges)
  This painting is always genuine.

• Proper Painting (Manet - A Bar at the Folie-Bergère)
  This painting is always genuine.

• Quaint Painting (Vermeer - The Milkmaid)
  The fake one has a very wide stream of water pouring from the jug.

• Scary Painting (Toshusai - Otani Oniji II
  The fake one has sad eyebrows.

• Scenic Painting (Bruegel - The Hunters in the Snow)
  The fake one only has one hunter instead of three.

• Serene Painting (Da Vinci - Lady with an Ermine)
  The fake one has the ermine looking like a raccoon. The real one is white all over.

• Sinking Painting (Millais - Ophelia
  This painting is always genuine.

• Solemn Painting (Velasquez - Las Meninas)
  The fake one has the figure in the doorway pointing up instead of forward.

• Twinkling Painting (Van Gogh - The Starry Night)
  This painting is always genuine.

• Warm Painting (Goya - The Clothed Maja)
  This painting is always genuine.

• Wild Painting Left Half (Tawaraya - Wind and Thunder God)
  The figure is green instead of white on the fake.

• Wild Painting Right Half (Tawaraya - Wind and Thunder God)
  The figure is white instead of green on the fake.

• Wistful Painting (Vermeer - Girl with a Pearl Earing)
  The fake has the girl with a star earring.

• Worthy Painting (Delacroix - Liberty Leading the People)
  This painting is always genuine.