13 works, 32 years later Boston's $500M art heist remains mystery, with footnotes

13 paintings (by Rembrandt, Vermeer and Manet)  vanished on March 18, 1990. The 25th anniversary of the infamous heist; where two men dressed as police officers gained entry to the museum, tied up the security officers and swiped 13 works worth an estimated $500 million. The museum continues to offer a $5 million reward for information leading to the recovery of the works.

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Édouard Manet

Chez Tortoni, c. about 1875

Oil on canvas

26 x 34 cm (10 1/4 x 13 3/8 in.)

Isabella Stewart Gardner

Stolen in 1990.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation announced today that it knows the identity of the thieves who stole 13 works of art from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston more than two decades ago, in what’s widely viewed as the biggest art heist in U.S. history. But the agency is still trying to figure out where those pieces are.

Govaert Flinck

Landscape with an Obelisk, c. 1638

Oil on canvas

w71 x h54.5 cm

Isabella Stewart Gardner

Johannes Vermeer  (1632–1675)

The Concert, circa 1664

Oil on canvas

Height: 72.5 cm (28.5 in); Width: 64.7 cm (25.4 in)

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Rembrandt  (1606–1669)

The Storm on the Sea of Galilee, c. 1633

Oil on canvas

Height: 160 cm (62.9 in); Width: 128 cm (50.3 in)

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Rembrandt  (1606–1669)

A Lady and Gentleman in Black, c. 1633

Oil on canvas

131.6 x 109 cm

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Rembrandt van Rijn

Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man," c.  1633

Ink on paper

4.5 x 5 cm (1 3/4 x 1 15/16 in.

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Edgar Degas (1834–1917)

La Sortie de Pesage

Pencil and watercolor on paper

Height: 10.5 cm (4.1 in); Width: 16 cm (6.2 in)

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Edgar Degas  (1834–1917)

Cortege aux Environs de Florence

Pencil and wash on paper

Height: 16 cm (6.2 in); Width: 21 cm (8.2 in)

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Edgar Degas

Program For An Artistic Soirée, c. 1884

Black chalk on paper

26.6 x 37.6 cm (10 1/2 x 14 13/16 in.) 

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Edgar Degas  (1834–1917)

Program for an artistic soiree 2, c. 1884

Charcoal on buff paper

Height: 23.4 cm (9.2 in); Width: 30 cm (11.8 in)

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Edgar Degas

Three Mounted Jockeys, c. 1885 and 1888

Black ink, white, flesh and rose washes, oil pigments on brown paper

30.5 x 24 cm (12 x 9 7/16 in.)

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

A bronze eagle finial rom Napoleon’s First Regiment of Imperial Guard

Gilded bronze

25.4 cm (10 in.) height.

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

An ancient Chinese beaker

Metal

26.5 x 15.6 cm (10 7/16 x 6 1/8 in.)

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

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