Landscape with Obelisk

Landscape with Obelisk
Artist Govert Flinck
Year 1638
Type Oil on wood
Dimensions 54.5 cm × 71 cm (21.5 in × 28 in)
Location Stolen

Landscape with Obelisk is 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).[1] It was formerly attributed to Rembrandt.[2]

Provenance

The painting hung in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum of Boston, Massachusetts, United States, prior to being stolen on March 18, 1990.[3] To this day, the painting has not resurfaced.

A $5 million reward is offered for the return of the stolen items.[4]


References

  1. ↑ "Landscape with Obelisk, 1638 (oil on wood)". Bridgeman Images. Retrieved 20 August 2014.
  2. ↑ Vigderman, Patricia. The Memory Palace of Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Hol Art Books. p. 151. ISBN 978-1-936102-24-2.
  3. ↑ "Stolen Art and the F.B.I.". The New York Times. November 18, 2005. Retrieved 20 August 2014.
  4. ↑ "The Gardner Museum Theft". Federal Bureau of Investigation. Retrieved 20 August 2014.