Items23The creator’s order
  1. 1Mona LisaMona LisaRecovered in 1913. Vincenzo Peruggia, a Louvre worker who had helped build the painting's glass case, took it on August 21, 1911; the painter Louis Béroud first reported it missing the next day. Peruggia kept it hidden in his Paris lodgings for about two years, then took it to Florence and was…0
  2. 2The Just JudgesThe Just JudgesStill missing, and now believed destroyed. This panel of van Eyck's Ghent Altarpiece was stolen from St Bavo's Cathedral in Ghent on the night of April 10, 1934. The Bishop of Ghent then received a ransom demand for one million Belgian francs, and the sender returned one of the panel's two parts…0
  3. 3Portrait of a Young Man (Raphael)Portrait of a Young Man (Raphael)Still missing since 1945. The Czartoryski family rescued Raphael's portrait from their museum in 1939 and hid it at Sieniawa, where the Gestapo, working for Hans Frank, Hitler's governor of occupied Poland, found it. Frank displayed looted paintings in his Kraków residence, and the portrait was…0
  4. 4Amber RoomAmber RoomLost since 1945; a reconstruction stands in its place. The amber-panelled chamber in the Catherine Palace at Tsarskoye Selo, near St Petersburg, was taken apart by German soldiers of Army Group North within 36 hours in 1941 and reached Königsberg that October. The trail goes cold there. A Soviet…0
  5. 5Portrait of the Duke of Wellington (Goya)Portrait of the Duke of Wellington (Goya)Recovered in 1965. Goya's portrait was stolen from the National Gallery in London in 1961, 19 days after it went on display. Four years later Kempton Bunton, a Newcastle man campaigning for free television licenses for pensioners, contacted a newspaper, and the painting came back through a baggage…0
  6. 6Portrait of Jacob de Gheyn IIIPortrait of Jacob de Gheyn IIIRecovered after each of its four thefts. Rembrandt's portrait is small, only about 30 by 25 centimeters, and that is part of why it has been stolen from the Dulwich Picture Gallery four times since 1966, the most recorded of any painting. It has earned the nickname the takeaway Rembrandt. Its…0
  7. 7Nativity with Saint Francis and Saint LawrenceNativity with Saint Francis and Saint LawrenceStill missing since 1969. Caravaggio's altarpiece was taken from its oratory in Palermo by two thieves on the night of October 17 to 18, 1969, and it has not been seen publicly since. In 2005 the FBI put it on its list of the Top Ten Art Crimes. Investigators think it may still be hidden somewhere…0
  8. 8Poppy FlowersPoppy FlowersStill missing after its second theft, in 2010. Van Gogh's still life was first stolen from the Mohamed Mahmoud Khalil Museum in Cairo on June 4, 1977 and recovered ten years later in Kuwait. In August 2010 it was taken from the same museum again. Within hours Egyptian officials announced that it…0
  9. 9Woman-OchreWoman-OchreRecovered in 2017. On the day after Thanksgiving in 1985, Willem de Kooning's 1955 painting was cut from its frame at the University of Arizona Museum of Art, apparently carried out under a visitor's coat. The museum had no security cameras and no fingerprints were found. More than 30 years later…0
  10. 10The Concert (Vermeer)The Concert (Vermeer)Still missing since 1990. Vermeer's painting was one of 13 works taken from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston in the early hours of March 18, 1990, after guards admitted two men posing as police officers. The robbery lasted 81 minutes, and the thieves removed this canvas from its frame…0