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    March 8, 2015
    Oil on canvas, 131.6 x 109 cm. Inscribed at the foot: Rembrandt.ft: 1633. This monumental work hung in a prominent spot in the Dutch Room, visible through its windows overlooking the court. Rembrandt completed this work in his second year in Amsterdam in 1632.
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    March 8, 2015
    Oil on canvas, 72.5 x 64.7 cm. One of approximately only 36 known works by Vermeer in the world. This work was Gardner’s first major acquisition, purchased with the help of experts at a Paris auction sale. Gardner placed it on a table alongside the window, a location where she often placed her most prized paintings, with a chair in front of it to invite viewing.
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    March 8, 2015
    Pencil and watercolor on paper, 10 x 16 cm
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    March 8, 2015
    Etching, 1 3/4 x 2 in. (Bartsch 2, Rovinski 2, Hind 57). A small etching nearly the size of a postage stamp, also referred to as Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, it was completed in 1633 when the artist was 27 years of age. The small work was affixed to the side of a carved oak cabinet in the Dutch Room beneath Rembrandt’s painted Self-Portrait of 1929.
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    March 8, 2015
    Charcoal on white paper, 24.1 x 30.9 cm
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    March 8, 2015
    Oil on canvas, 161.7 x 129.8 cm. Inscribed on the rudder: Rembrandt (sic). f::/1633. This is Rembrandt’s only known seascape
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    March 8, 2015
    A less-finished version, charcoal on buff paper, 23.4 x 30 cm
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    March 8, 2015
    Pencil and wash on paper, 16 x 21 cm
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    March 8, 2015
    Black ink, white, flesh and rose washes, probably oil pigments, applied with a brush on medium brown paper, 30.5 x 24 cm
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    March 8, 2015
    Oil on canvas, 26 x 34 cm. Inscribed at the foot on the left: Manet. Gardner placed this small work on a table beneath the darker and far more somber portrait of Manet’s mother, shown as a widow in a black veil and a silk dress entirely in black.
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    March 8, 2015
    Approx. 10 in. high, this originally sat on the top of the pole support of a silk Napoleonic flag in the Short Gallery, which was not taken by the thieves. The finial is made of bronze, but may have had the appearance of gold to the thieves. The finial is one of only two objects stolen.
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    March 8, 2015
    Oil on oak panel, 54.5 x 71 cm. Inscribed faintly at the foot on the right: R. 16.8 (until recently attributed to Rembrandt). Long attributed to Rembrandt, this work was recognized in the 1980s as the work of his pupil, Govaert Flinck. Gardner placed this work on a table alongside a window, opposite Vermeer’s The Concert.
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    March 8, 2015
    Height: 10 1/2 in.; Diameter 6 1/8 in.; Weight: 2 lbs. 7 oz. An ancient bronze beaker, this object sat on a table in the Dutch Room. This is the oldest artwork taken by the thieves and one of only two objects stolen.