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The Nationalmuseum robbery was the robbery of three paintings worth a combined total of $30–45 million USD from the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm, Sweden, on 22 December 2000. [1] [2] The stolen paintings were a self-portrait by Rembrandt and two Renoir paintings, Conversation and Young Parisian. [1] [2] The paintings have been recovered.
Rembrandt's Landscape with Cottages, the most valuable of the stolen works, seen here in a black-and-white image from the artist's 1968 catalogue raisonné. All of the stolen paintings were by European artists from the 17th through 19th centuries:
A Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings V (The Small-Scale History Paintings). van de Wetering, Ernst (Ed.). Springer. 2010. ISBN 978-1-4020-4607-0. A Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings VI: Rembrandt’s Paintings Revisited – A Complete Survey. Ernst van de Wetering. Springer. 2014. ISBN 978-9-4017-9173-1.
A Rembrandt painting that was taken from a museum in 1999 was returned earlier this year in France. And a painting by Renoir that was stolen more than 60 years ago showed up at a thrift store in ...
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"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."
Portrait of a Man Rising from His Chair is a painting by the Dutch painter Rembrandt, painted in 1633. [1] It hangs in the Taft Museum of Art of Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. The oil-on-canvas portrait measures 124 by 99 centimetres (49 in × 39 in). [2] It is signed and dated 1633, and there is no doubt of its authenticity.
Classified as a history painting, [4] The Storm on the Sea of Galilee is an oil-on-canvas painting and is about 160 x 128 cm in size. It was Rembrandt's earliest painting, completed when he was 29 years old, and it is the largest known historical work that he completed.