Popular Culture
In Robert Harris' alternate history novel Fatherland, set in a world in which Nazi Germany won World War II, this work turns up in a Swiss safe deposit box in 1964, having been looted by prominent Nazis.
Lady with an Ermine was one of the visual inspirations for Philip Pullman's concept of dæmons, appearing in the His Dark Materials series of novels.
The picture is a key element of Polish comedy Vinci about a group of art thieves attemtping to steal the picture.
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