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Thirteen objects: Vermeer's The Concert; Rembrandt's The Storm on the Sea of Galilee and A Lady and Gentleman in Black; a Rembrandt etching; Manet's Chez Tortoni; five Degas works on paper; a Flinck landscape; a Chinese bronze gu; and a Napoleonic flag finial. The empty frames still hang.
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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum theft · paras 3
British and other English papers file the Gardner next to the 1911 Mona Lisa as a celebrity-art story, but the comparison is limited: Paris recovered its painting in 1913. Boston's English memory is the frames, the reward and the annual reminder that the Concert has not come home. In the early hours of 18 March 1990, after St Patrick's Day in Boston.
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum theft · What was taken?
Thirteen objects: Vermeer's The Concert; Rembrandt's The Storm on the Sea of Galilee and A Lady and Gentleman in Black; a Rembrandt etching; Manet's Chez Tortoni; five Degas works on paper; a Flinck landscape; a Chinese bronze gu; and a Napoleonic flag finial. The empty frames still hang.
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum theft · Has anything been recovered?
No. As of the museum's public statements in the 2020s, none of the thirteen works has been returned. The FBI said in 2013 that it believed it knew who had taken them, but that announcement did not produce a recovery or a public trial of living thieves. Yes. The museum raised its offer to $10 million in 2017 for information leading to the return of all thirteen works in good condition.
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum theft · Why are the frames still on the walls?
Isabella Stewart Gardner's will requires the collection to remain as she installed it. The museum left the frames as markers of the missing works and as a refusal to pretend the rooms are complete. Visitors still walk past them in the Dutch Room and nearby galleries. The original 1990 theft can no longer be prosecuted as a standalone federal theft after the five-year limit ran in 1995.
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No. As of the museum's public statements in the 2020s, none of the thirteen works has been returned. The FBI said in 2013 that it believed it knew who had taken them, but that announcement did not produce a recovery or a public trial of living thieves. Yes. The museum raised its offer to $10 million in 2017 for information leading to the return of all thirteen works in good condition.
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Isabella Stewart Gardner's will requires the collection to remain as she installed it. The museum left the frames as markers of the missing works and as a refusal to pretend the rooms are complete. Visitors still walk past them in the Dutch Room and nearby galleries. The original 1990 theft can no longer be prosecuted as a standalone federal theft after the five-year limit ran in 1995.
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