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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LocationWhereabouts 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. Partially Attested
Year CreatedSource dates the painting to about 1875 only. Medium
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Source Chez Tortoni (Wikipedia)
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1. Chez Tortoni (Wikipedia)
Opening paragraph, date
painted ca. 1875
Infobox, medium
Oil on canvas
Opening paragraph, location
Whereabouts unknown since the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum theft in 1990 and it has not yet been recovered.
Genre reference
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.
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
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