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Chez Tortoni

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Chez Tortoni is a small oil painting by Edouard Manet, dated to roughly the mid-to-late 1870s, showing an unidentified gentleman seated at a table at the Cafe Tortoni in Paris with a partly filled glass of beer beside him as he draws in a sketchbook. The painting was stolen in the 1990 theft at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston and remains missing, with a ten million dollar reward still offered for its return along with the other items taken that night.

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Whereabouts unknown, stolen 1990 from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston 1
Whereabouts unknown since the 1990 theft from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum; not recovered.
Medium
Oil on canvas 1
Partially Attested
Year Created
1875 1
Source dates the painting to about 1875 only.
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Genre
Painting 1
Medium
Medium (category)
Oil on Canvas 1
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1. Chez Tortoni (Wikipedia)
  • Opening paragraph, date
    painted ca. 1875
  • Infobox, medium
    Oil on canvas
  • Lead section
    The painting hung in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum of Boston, Massachusetts, United States prior to its theft in 1990 and it has not yet been recovered.
  • Lead section
    The oil-on-canvas painting measures 26 by 34 centimetres (10 in × 13 in).
  • In Form: Painting, lead paragraph
    Chez Tortoni is a painting by the French artist Édouard Manet, painted ca. 1875. The oil-on-canvas painting measures 26 by 34 centimetres (10 in × 13 in). The painting hung in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum of Boston, Massach
  • Created By: Édouard Manet, Infobox: artist
    Édouard Manet
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