Obituary

Da Vinci's portrait of a woman holding a stoat became the internet's image of clutching something small and weird for comfort — a blanket, a snack, a parasocial relationship. It died when everyone got a real emotional-support pet and the ermine was returned to the wild.

Portrait: Leonardo da Vinci · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Born

2014

Died

2019

Cause of death

Emotional-support-animal fatigue

Last sighting

A 'me and my iced coffee' edit, 2019

Resting place

Section J, Row 2

Category

art