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The Concert (Dutch: Het concert) (c. 1664) is a painting by the Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer depicting a man and two women performing music. It was stolen on March 18, 1990, from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston and remains missing. [1]
[44] [45] Among these was The Concert by Dutch painter Vermeer (1632–1675), one of only 34 [a] paintings attributed to him. [46] The painting accounts for half of the overall theft's value, [43] [47] estimated at $250 million in 2015. [32] Experts believe that The Concert may be the most valuable stolen object in the world.
Among the works was The Concert (c. 1664), one of only 34 known by Johannes Vermeer and thought to be the most valuable unrecovered painting at over $200 million. [when?] Also missing is The Storm on the Sea of Galilee (1633), Rembrandt's only known seascape. Some of the canvases were crudely cut out of their stretchers.
The blockbuster exhibition of paintings by Dutch Master Johannes Vermeer closed its doors for the final time on Sunday, with the art and history national museum of the Netherlands hailing the show ...
Detail of the painting The Procuress (c. 1656), proposed self portrait by Vermeer [1] The following is a list of paintings by Johannes Vermeer (1632–1675), a Dutch Golden Age painter. After two or three early history paintings, he concentrated almost entirely on genre works, typically interiors with one or two figures. Vermeer's paintings of ...
The Concert (Vermeer) G. The Geographer; A Girl Asleep; Girl Interrupted at Her Music; Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window; Girl with a Flute; Girl with a Pearl ...
The Music Lesson is a mature work of Vermeer and his handling of color and his choice of painting materials [8] is but one of the aspects proving his mastery. The painting is dominated by dark areas such as the bluish-black floor painted in bone black with the addition of natural ultramarine .
Woman with a Pearl Necklace by Johannes Vermeer is a Dutch Golden Age painting of about 1664. Painted in oils on canvas, Johannes Vermeer portrayed a young Dutch woman, most likely of upper-class descent, dressing herself with two yellow ribbons, pearl earrings, and a pearl necklace.