A Portrait of the Witcher as an Old Man

**A Portrait of the Witcher as an Old Man** is a secondary quest in the *Blood and Wine* expansion.

The quest does not become available immediately, it did appear after finishing The Warble of a Smitten Knight, though.

## Journal entry

*One day Geralt got an unusual proposition. A portrait artist, inspired and delighted by the witcher's singular appearance, asked if he would pose for a painting. Largely open to the varied experiences life offers, the witcher agreed to model for the painter. Though he later claimed he was driven primarily by a desire to support the arts (an impulse laudable in and of itself!), I suspect plain old vanity might also have come into play.
The witcher and the artist set off together for the countryside, where the beautiful landscape was to serve as the backdrop for the portrait.*
*Once they arrived at their destination, it turned out that some picnickers had occupied the vista the artist had chosen. To make matters worse, the artist's painting tools had disappeared, and the witcher had to find them.
In the end he could finally get down to posing and was pained to learn that a portrait takes much longer to produce than he had supposed. He did not manage to grow thoroughly bored, however, thanks to a griffin that swooped in unannounced. Geralt had to defeat the beast to save both the painter and his emerging work. He received payment for posing and learned he would be able to view the finished portrait the next day in the main town square.*
*Geralt finally saw the work that generated quite a lot of interest from the inhabitants of Beauclair. As it turned out, in the portrait the painter had rendered the witcher in the nude. Though explicit, the representation was flattering. To this day I remember the sheepish grin on Geralt's face as he related the tale to yours truly!*
## Walkthrough

* Meet the painter around noon by the western gate of the palace.
* Follow the painter.
* Find the painter's paints.
	+ *Painting accessories in cave under Rosetree Hill.* (100 )
* Give the painter the paints.
* Follow the painter.
* *Considering the pose for the painting:*
	+ *On horseback.* (×)
	+ *Heroic.*
	+ *Reclining.*
* Kill the griffin. (250 )
	+ Griffin trophy
* *Immortalize the griffin in the painting?*
	+ *Yeah. Paint it in.* (×)
	+ *Rather not have the griffin in the painting.*
* *For the work done.* (150 , 300 )
* Wait one day to see your painting.
* Go see your painting at the market.
* *Is the painting to your liking?*
	+ *Not quite what I expected.*
	+ *Don't know much about art.*
	+ *It's... good.*
* *Buy the painting at a special price?*
	+ *(1000) Gladly.* (×) (100 )
		- Portrait of Geralt *(8 different versions of the painting exist.)*
	+ *No, thanks.*

## Gallery

* The Painter seems to be quite talented.
* On Rosetree Hill the Painter finds a picnic, but even more dire, his paints have vanished.
* The view from Rosetree Hill.
* Geralt gets on the track of the missing paints.
* In a cave under the hill nekkers stare mesmerized at a wall.
* It turns out they stole the paints and created a mural on the cave wall.
* Geralt chooses a reclining pose
* Geralt poses on horse...
* ...when a griffin attacks.
* The finished painting can be viewed the next day. The female crowd seems to take quite the liking to it.
* Beauclairians (especially women) admiring witcher's portrait

## Notes

The name of this quest is a nod to the James Joyce novel "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man".