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- History’s greatest art heist occurs at a Boston museum (1990) Photo : Josh Reynolds, File/AP. In the early morning, on the day after St. Patrick’s Day, thieves entered the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, subduing guards who were watching the Boston institution’s grounds at night.
- Mona Lisa is stolen from the Louvre by an Italian handyman (1911) Photo : Via Wikimedia Commons. Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa may be the most well-known artwork in the world—and an art heist is one of the reasons its fame was cemented.
- 'Spider-Man' steals five masterpieces from a Paris museum (2010) Photo : Thibault Camus/AP. The theft of five major works of modern art from Paris’s Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville in 2010 was so slick, it drew comparisons to Arsène Lupin, the fictional thief of French pulp fame, and Spider-Man, whose name became the moniker by which the burglar who committed the heist ended up being known.
- Impressionist masterpieces are taken from a Paris museum as the public looks on (1985) Photo : Francois Mori/AP. The artwork that gave its name to the Impressionist art movement was stolen from Paris’s Musée Marmottan in 1985, in one of the most daring heists ever committed anywhere.
Mar 18, 2013 · The thieves removed works of art whose value has been estimated as high as $300 million. Click on the title below to access a high resolution image of each of the 13 works stolen in the robbery:...
Stolen from a private residence during a burglary; no other paintings were stolen. The largest art theft in world history occurred in Boston on March 18, 1990, when thieves stole 13 pieces, collectively valued at $500 million, from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
Title, ArtistDate StolenLocation Of TheftDetailsMadeleine Leaning on her Elbow with ...September 8, 2011Private residence, Houston, TexasStolen by armed robber at night [17]Poppy Flowers by Vincent van GoghAugust 2010Mohammed Mahmoud Khalil Museum, Cairo, ...Poppy Flowers (also known as Vase and ...Venus with a Mirror by Jacopo Palma il ...February 11, 2010Budapest, Andrássy 94 szám, Hübner ...Stolen on 11 February 2010 from Andrássy ...A Cavalier by Frans van Mieris the ElderJune 10, 2007Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, ...Stolen by visitor during opening hours.Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum theft. 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 disturbance call, and the thieves bound the guards and looted the museum over the next hour.
- 'The Concert' Johannes Vermeer. 1663-1666. This small painting, slightly more than two-feet square, was displayed back-to-back with Govaert Flinck’s “Landscape with Obelisk” on a small tabletop in the Gardner Museum’s magnificent Dutch Room.
- 'A Lady And Gentleman In Black' Rembrandt van Rijn. 1633. All of the Rembrandts in Mrs. Gardner’s collection were produced by the early 1630s, when Rembrandt was only 26 or 27 years old (though his sensitive self-portrait — which wasn’t stolen — dates from four years earlier).
- 'Christ In The Storm On The Sea Of Galilee' Rembrandt van Rijn. 1633. Four artworks to the right of the stolen "Lady And Gentleman In Black" in the Dutch Room hangs the empty frame of the most famous of the missing paintings, “Christ In The Storm On The Sea Of Galilee,” an illustration of an even more famous passage in the New Testament (Matthew, 8)
- 'Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man' Rembrandt van Rijn. 1633. This tiny etching, just 1 inch and ¾ wide by nearly 2 inches high, is one of those Rembrandt marvels.
Art theft. The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum was robbed in 1990, losing paintings and items valued at over $500 million. Art theft, sometimes called artnapping, is the stealing of paintings, sculptures, or other forms of visual art from galleries, museums or other public and private locations.
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Feb 1, 2017 · In 2010, five works of art—valued at €100 million and often described as priceless—were stolen from Paris’s Musée d’Art Moderne. The thief eluded security systems and dozing security guards. Works by Picasso, Léger, Braque, Matisse, and Modigliani were carefully removed from their frames and vanished into the night.
