Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer
1914-1916 · Oil on canvas
Private collection
Stolen and recovered
41 works in the archive were stolen, looted or confiscated at some point: by armies, by the Nazi state, from tombs, from houses. Open any of them for what happened next, every step with its sources.
41 works
The Euphronios Krater
c. 515 BC · Terracotta
Museo Archeologico Nazionale Cerite
Third Imperial Easter Egg
1886-1887, delivered for Orthodox Easter 1887 · Gold
Private collection, owner not named
Breguet No. 160, the Marie-Antoinette
Ordered 1783 · Gold
L. A. Mayer Museum for Islamic Art, Jerusalem
The Lydian Hoard
About 560-540 BC · Gold
Usak Museum of Archaeology, Usak, Turkey
The Rothschild Prayerbook
c. 1505-1510, Ghent or Bruges · Tempera
Kerry Stokes Collection, Perth, lent for public display in...
The Hope Diamond
Mined in India, probably at the Kollur workings in the... · Type IIb boron-bearing diamond
Smithsonian Institution
The Unicorn Tapestries
c. 1495-1505 · Wool warp with wool
The Met Cloisters, New York, Gallery 17
The Concert
c. 1663-1666 · Oil on canvas
Unlocated. Stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum...
The Benin Bronzes
Plaques probably 1500 to mid-1600s · Cast leaded brass
Dispersed. Digital Benin recorded 5,246 objects across 131...
Vase with Viscaria
Paris, summer 1886 · Oil on canvas
Gilded Coffin of Nedjemankh
c. 150-50 BC · Cartonnage
Arab Republic of Egypt
The Gilgamesh Dream Tablet
c. 1600 BC · Clay
Iraq Museum, Baghdad
Rue Saint-Honore in the Afternoon. Effect of Rain
1897 · Oil on canvas
Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, room 33.
Portrait of Wally Neuzil
1912 · Oil on wood panel
Leopold Museum, Vienna. Owned by the Leopold Museum...
The Weary Herakles
AD 170-192 · Marble
Antalya Museum, Antalya
Basin known as the Baptistere de Saint Louis
Mamluk Egypt or Syria, first half of the 14th century · Hammered brass
Musee du Louvre, Departement des Arts de l'Islam, Paris, Room...
The Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux, Queen of France
c. 1324-1328 · Grisaille
The Cloisters, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Cantino planisphere
1502 · Ink
Biblioteca Estense Universitaria, Modena
Codice Maya de Mexico
c. AD 1021-1154 · Amate
Biblioteca Nacional de Antropologia e Historia, Mexico City
The Astronomer
1668 · Oil on canvas
Musee du Louvre, Paris, Departement des Peintures.
The Bayeux Tapestry
c. 1067-1082, on the evidence of the Domesday connections... · Wool crewel yarn embroidered onto a...
On loan to the British Museum, London, 10 September 2026 to...
The Holy Thorn Reliquary
Sources vary within a c. 1390-1410 window: Google Arts &... · Gold
British Museum, London, Room 2A
The Vinland Map
Uncertain. The parchment itself radiocarbon-dates to circa... · Ink
Plaque with Oba (King) or Chief
ca. 1540-70 · Brass
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, on view in Gallery 342...
The Apocalypse Tapestry
designed from 1373 · Wool and silk on a wool warp
Fra Mauro's World Map (Mappamondo di Fra Mauro)
c. 1450 · Ink
Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Venice
The Lydian Hoard (Karun Treasure)
c. 550-450 BCE, Achaemenid-period Lydia · Gold
Usak Museum of Archaeology, Usak, Turkey
The Amphilochios Paten
Third quarter of the 6th century · Silver
The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland
Coronation Mantle of Roger II
1133/34 CE · Red silk samite dyed with kermes
Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, Weltliche Schatzkammer
The Great Dish from the Mildenhall Treasure
4th century CE · Silver
British Museum, London
The Shroud of Cadouin
1096 or 1097 CE · Linen
Diocese of Perigueux et Sarlat
Armchair (fauteuil) from Louis XVI's Salon des Jeux at Saint Cloud
1788 · Carved and gilded walnut
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gallery 527
Saliera (Salt Cellar of Francis I)
1540-1543 · Gold
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Kunstkammer, Room XXIX
Plate from the Society of the Cincinnati Service of George Washington
ca. 1785 · Hard-paste porcelain
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The American Wing
Violin, the 'Duke of Alcantara'
1732 · Carved spruce top
University of California, Los Angeles, Herb Alpert School of...
The Voynich Manuscript
Parchment radiocarbon-dated to 1404-1438 · Iron gall ink
The Coronation Chair
1297-1300 · Oak
Westminster Abbey, London
Priam's Treasure
c. 2550-2250 BC · Gold
Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia, permanent...
Epee du sacre des rois de France
Composite, 10th to 19th century · Gold with filigree work
The Ashburnham Pentateuch
Late 6th or early 7th century · Ink and tempera with gold on parchment
Bibliotheque nationale de France, Departement des manuscrits...