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- Twenty years ago this week, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum was the site of the biggest art heist in history. Two men dressed as police officers broke into the Boston art museum and stole 13 masterpieces, including five Degas, three Rembrandts and one Vermeer.
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- '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.
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.
Case Of Art TheftDatesNotes2022–presentMain article: Art theft and looting by ...Francis Bacon art in MadridJune 2015, made public in March 2016Five paintings—said to be of ...Sripuranthan Chola IdolsJanuary, 2006Main article: Sripuranthan Natarajan Idol ...January 18, 2013Main article: John Tillmann On January ...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.
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On March 18, 1990, at 1:24 a.m., two men gained entrance to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. In less than 90 minutes, they made off with 13 works of art, which at the time were collectively valued at $200 million (today, they're worth $500 million). The inventory of stolen items included paintings, sketches, a 12th century Chinese beaker, and a...
One of the first questions raised was why the thieves chose the pieces that they did. As suggested by the leisurely 81 minutes, this was not a smash-and-grab heist, where they grabbed the easiest works to steal or pieces nearest the exit. The stolen items were spread across three galleries on two separate floors. The thieves smashed glass panels, t...
It was St. Patrick’s Day weekend in Boston, but the street where the museum is located was far from the carousing crowds. There, two men dressed as police officers rang the bell at the side door of the museum. After being buzzed in by security, they lured the two on-duty guards away from their stations and handcuffed them both. Then, one of the cou...
In 1975, Myles Connor Jr. stole a Rembrandt from Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, which is just a short walk from the Gardner Museum. So when the latter was burgled, Connor became an immediate suspect ... except he had a superb alibi: He was already in federal custody. "There’s a saying that the guards came to knock on my cell door, to make sure I was...
Six days after the heist, the museum reopened to the public. Management addressed the losses as best they could while respecting Gardner's will. Thus, the frames were rehung—just without the stolen art inside them. Robbed of their canvases, the frames display the ornate wallpaper that lies behind them. And so it has been for more than 30 years, lea...
Jan 7, 2019 · In 2001, when the police arrested Stéphane Breitwieser—a French thief who stole two hundred and thirty-nine works of art from more than a hundred museums and galleries—his mother shredded ...
Mar 19, 2023 · There has been only one major long-standing change at the museum since Gardner’s 1924 death, but its very nature precludes the fulfilment of her wishes — because 13 valuable pieces of art were...
Apr 9, 2021 · In 1990, two thieves made off with a $500 million cache of art by Rembrandt, Vermeer, Degas and more. Three decades later, the works remain missing.
