Leonardo painted Lady with an Ermine in 1490. Around the year 1800, the piece was purchased by the Polish aristocrat Adam Jerzy Czartoryski, who gave it as a gift to his mother, Izabela Czartoryska.

Could we, for example, truly feel like we were there as 'Lady with an Ermine' was first created ... pen for Leonardo da Vinci's 15th century painting, which visitors of the National Museum ...

Among the multiple masterpieces given a scrupulous examination in “Leonardo da Vinci” is “Lady With an Ermine” (1486-89 ... smiling slightly,” says art historian Martin Kemp ...