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The Concert (Dutch: Het concert) ( c. 1664) is a painting by the Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer depicting a man and two women performing music. It was stolen on March 18, 1990, from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston and remains missing. [1] Experts believe it may be the most valuable stolen object in the world; [2] [3] as of 2015, it ...
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum theft. Coordinates: 42.338°N 71.099°W. The frame which once held Rembrandt 's The Storm on the Sea of Galilee (1633) In the early morning hours of March 18, 1990, 13 works of art were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. Guards admitted two men posing as police officers responding to a ...
Among the pieces stolen was Vermeer 's The Concert, which is considered to be the most valuable stolen painting in the world. A reward of $10,000,000 is still offered for information leading to their return. Part of a $500,000,000 heist [4] $10,000,000. The Storm on the Sea of Galilee by Rembrandt van Rijn.
“The Heist,” the true story of the theft of Willem de Kooning’s iconic “Woman-Ochre” from an Arizona art museum, is in the works from “The Love Bugs” director Allison Otto ...
This Is a Robbery: The World's Biggest Art Heist is a 2021 American documentary miniseries about the 1990 robbery of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. [1] [2] [3] The four-part series was directed by Colin Barnicle, who also produced alongside his brother Nick Barnicle. The series was produced over a seven-year period, beginning in ...
The museum was built in 1898–1901 by Isabella Stewart Gardner (1840–1924), an American art collector, philanthropist, and patron of the arts in the style of a 15th-century Venetian palace. It opened to the public in 1903. Gardner began collecting seriously after she received a large inheritance from her father in 1891.
The Concert is an oil on panel painting by the Dutch artist Gerard ter Borch, created c. 1673–1675. The work is held in the Gemäldegalerie, in Berlin. History and description. Ter Borch was a painter who paid a lot of attention to the narrative aspects in his paintings.
Stéphane Breitwieser (born 1 October 1971) is a French art thief and author, notorious for his art thefts between 1995 and 2001. He admitted to stealing 239 artworks and other exhibits from 172 museums while travelling around Europe and working as a waiter, an average of one theft every 15 days. [1] The Guardian called him "arguably the world ...