The Polish government has acquired the collection of Polish-Spanish aristocrat Prince Adam Karol Czartoryski, which includes Leonardo da Vinci’s Lady with an Ermine and Rembrandt’s Landscape with the Good Samaritan, for the price of $118 million, a move which led to the resignation of the Princes Czartoryski Foundation in protest over the “illegal” sale, and over fears that the nation may break the collection up for resale.  “It was only a deposit and the Czartoryski foundation could sell them or replace them,” says a spokeswoman for the National Museum in Krakow. “Now the collection is owned by the Polish nation.”

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