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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. Security guards admitted two men posing as policemen responding to a disturbance call, and the thieves bound the guards and looted the museum ...
The Storm on the Sea of Galilee is a painting of 1633 by the Dutch Golden Age painter Rembrandt van Rijn that was in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum of Boston, Massachusetts, United States, prior to being stolen on March 18, 1990.
The Storm on the Sea of Galilee appears several times and is directly referenced and described--including a focus on Rembrandt's own likeness in the work--in the 2013 psychological thriller film Trance directed by Danny Boyle about an auctioneer (played by James McAvoy) who must undergo hypnosis to remember the whereabouts of a stolen painting.
A hot tip in 27-year-old art heist case could earn you a whopping $10 million reward — but you've only got three days.
The Gardner Museum is much admired for the intimate atmosphere in which its works of art are displayed and for its flower-filled courtyard. Most of the art pieces are unlabeled, and the generally low lighting is more akin to a private house than a modern art museum. In 1983, the museum was listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
The pieces stolen were: Vermeer's The Concert, which is the most valuable stolen painting in the world; two Rembrandt paintings, The Storm on the Sea of Galilee (his only known seascape) and Portrait of a Lady and Gentleman in Black; A Rembrandt self-portrait etching; Manet's Chez Tortoni; five drawings by Edgar Degas; Govaert Flinck's ...
"The person who bought the painting for $1.4 million already got a great bargain," Mark Winter, an authentication expert, tells the Times. "We don't discover new paintings by Rembrandt every day."
A painting by Rembrandt, thought to have been done by his assistants, has been declared an authentic work created by the Dutch Master A Museum Just Discovered It Has Owned a Rembrandt for Over 60 ...