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The Concert (Vermeer)

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The Concert is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer, created around 1664, showing three figures making music together in a domestic interior: a woman playing a harpsichord, a man playing a lute, and a second woman singing. The painting was stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston on March 18, 1990, and has never been recovered. It is widely considered the most valuable work of art still missing, with its value estimated at roughly 250 million dollars.

Facts
Year Created
1664 1
Medium
Oil on canvas 1
Location
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston (stolen 1990, still missing) 1
Classification
Genre
Painting 1
Sources
1. Wikipedia: The Concert (Vermeer)
  • Lead section, date field
    c. 1664
  • Lead section, medium field
    Oil on canvas
  • Theft section
    It was stolen on March 18, 1990, from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston and remains missing to the present.
  • Genre reference
    The Concert is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer, created around 1664, showing three figures making music together in a domestic interior: a woman playing a harpsichord, a man playing a lute, and a second woman singing.
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