# Haralamb's Studio

> From the Curse of Strahd game wiki (it covers the whole game, spoilers included): https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/haralambs-studio.html. Unofficial Fan Content permitted under the Fan Content Policy, not approved or endorsed by Wizards of the Coast.

> [!infobox]
> ![loc vallaki painters studio 1](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/shots/loc-vallaki-painters-studio-1.webp)
> **Region:** [Vallaki](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/regions/vallaki.md) · level 5
> **Resting:** Risky
> **Light:** dim
> **Getting here:** [Vallaki](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/vallaki.md)
> **Quests:** [The Count's Portraitist](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-counts-portraitist.md)

## Overview

Haralamb the painter's house on Vallaki's east row: a front room of pots and rags, and up the back a long studio full of portraits of one woman, and the great canvas the count gave him to copy from (The Count's Portraitist, docs/story/side_quests.md).

A painter's house that smells of linseed and something under it, like old flowers. Every canvas in it is turned to the wall, except the ones that aren't, and those all have the same face.

**Resting:** Risky: a rest here can be interrupted.

![loc vallaki painters studio overview](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/shots/loc-vallaki-painters-studio-overview.webp)
*The whole place from above.*

## Getting here

### Ways in

- **From [Vallaki](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/vallaki.md):** Haralamb's door

### Ways out

| # | Exit | Leads to | Only when |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Out to the east row | [Vallaki](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/vallaki.md) |  |

## Map

![vallaki painters studio](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/maps/vallaki-painters-studio.svg)

**Key:** gold, people; red, containers; purple, hidden finds; teal, skill checks; white, exits; orange, traps. The numbers match the lists on this page.

### Close up

![loc vallaki painters studio spot1](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/shots/loc-vallaki-painters-studio-spot1.webp)
*a great canvas in a gilt frame*

## What to find

The containers here also get random magic items and potions, rolled for a party of level 5 the first time you come ([Random Treasure](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/random-treasure.md)). Hidden finds need a Search (F) nearby; the party's best roll counts.

## Fights

- *The great canvas leans out of its frame on its own, and the portraits round the walls come with it, frames…*, in [Haralamb's Studio](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/haralambs-studio.md): [The Count's Likeness](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/the-counts-likeness.md), [Guardian Portrait](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/guardian-portrait.md). Part of [The Count's Portraitist](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-counts-portraitist.md).

## Quests and lore

- [The Count's Portraitist](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-counts-portraitist.md): Haralamb, who paints the Baron's wicker sun, was fetched to the castle and kept eleven nights painting a woman from the count's memory. He…