A Lady and Gentleman in Black

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A Lady and Gentleman in Black
ArtistRembrandt
Year1633
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions131.6 cm × 109 cm (51.8 in × 43 in)
LocationUnknown since its theft in 1990 from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, US

A Lady and Gentleman in Black is an oil-on-canvas painting, reputedly a work of the Dutch artist

Boston, Massachusetts prior to being one of thirteen works stolen from the museum in a 1990 theft
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Provenance

The authorship of the painting has been debated. In 1987, the Rembrandt Research Project (RRP) disattributed the work, considering it a product of the artist's workshop.[2] However, the RRP re-attributed the painting to Rembrandt again in its corpus published in 2015, in which it is called Portrait of a couple in an interior. X-ray examination of the painting reveals that Rembrandt originally painted a child leaning on the seated lady's leg. Art historians speculate that the child died young and that the couple asked for the image to be painted out so as not to bring back painful memories.[3]

Bernard Berenson purchased the painting on behalf of collector Isabella Stewart Gardner.[4]

It hung in the

Boston, Massachusetts, United States, prior to being stolen on March 18, 1990. Following the theft, the painting has not resurfaced.[5] A reward is offered for the return of the stolen items.[5]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Rembrandt, A Lady and Gentleman in Black, 1633". Federal Bureau of Investigation. Retrieved 20 August 2014.
  2. ISBN 978-0-06-145184-3
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  3. ISBN 978-9-4017-9173-1
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  4. ISBN 978-0-674-06777-6
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  5. ^ a b "Theft". Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Retrieved 20 August 2014.
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