Framing the Loss: Stolen Isabella Stewart Gardner Paintings, Remembered by Their Frames
Wednesday marks 25 years since thieves stole works of art valued at a total of $500 million from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. But there’s no placing a price on the experience those thieves stole from millions of museum visitors.
The museum memorializes four of the missing paintings with empty frames. Here are those frames and the art they once held.
All that remains of Govaert Flinck’s Landscape with an Obelisk (1638) is a gold frame in the museum’s Dutch Room:
Vermeer’s The Concert (1658) sat in a now-empty frame behind the Flinck:
Rembrandt’s The Storm on the Sea of Galilee (1633) sat in a frame above three upholstered chairs in the same gallery:
Rembrandt’s A Lady and Gentleman in Black (1633) was displayed in this frame:
A total of 13 items were stolen from the museum by thieves dressed as Boston Police Officers on March 18, 1990. You can view more of the stolen artifacts and paintings here.
Photos courtesy of The Boston Globe and FBI.gov.
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