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Landscape with Obelisk

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Landscape with Obelisk is an oil on wood painting completed in 1638 by the Dutch artist Govert Flinck, measuring about 54.5 by 71 centimetres and depicting a landscape dominated by an obelisk. Long attributed to Rembrandt, it was formerly held at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts, until it was stolen in the museum's notorious 1990 art theft and remains missing. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Location
Unknown, stolen 1990 1
Painting was stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990 and has not been recovered; current whereabouts unknown.
Year Created
1638 1
Medium
Oil on wood 1
Classification
Genre
Painting 1
Medium
Medium (category)
Oil on Wood 1
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Painting, Art Forms
Source Landscape with Obelisk (Wikipedia)

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Painting, Art Forms

Entity-backed identity for the genre enum value this work already carries, resolved to an arts art-form by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The genre fact itself, with its own citation, stays on the work unchanged.

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1. Landscape with Obelisk (Wikipedia)
  • Lead paragraph, sentence 1
    Landscape with Obelisk is a painting by Dutch artist Govert Flinck, painted in 1638.
  • Lead paragraph, sentence 2
    The oil-on-wood painting measures 54.5 by 71 centimetres (21.5 in x 28.0 in).
  • Lead paragraph, final clause
    Whereabouts unknown since the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum theft in 1990
  • Genre reference
    Landscape with Obelisk is an oil on wood painting completed in 1638 by the Dutch artist Govert Flinck, measuring about 54.
  • In Form: Painting, lead paragraph
    Landscape with Obelisk is a painting by Dutch artist Govert Flinck, painted in 1638. The oil-on-wood painting measures 54.5 by 71 centimetres (21.5 in × 28.0 in). It was formerly attributed to Rembrandt. The painting hung in the I
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