The Concert
c. 1663-1666 · Oil on canvas
Unlocated
The FBI still lists the painting as stolen thirty six years after it was taken from the Gardner Museum, with nothing recovered and the museum offering a reward of up to ten million dollars.
Stolen and recovered
Taken. Sold on. Hidden. Found. Fought over. Sometimes returned.
51 works in the archive were stolen, looted or confiscated: by armies, by the Nazi state, from tombs, from houses and museums. Some came back; some are still missing. Each record tells what happened next, step by step, with its sources.
Each status is the one the record documents on the date shown. It is not a statement about anyone who holds a work today beyond what the cited sources say.
Still missing
Taken and never found. The record carries what is known of the loss and where to report a sighting.
Nativity with St Francis and St Lawrence
1609 · Oil on canvas
Missing
The Italian parliamentary Antimafia Commission reported in 2018 that the altarpiece was taken from the Oratorio di San Lorenzo in October 1969, and no body has recorded its recovery since.
Portrait of a Young Man
c. 1513-14 · Oil on panel
Missing since January 1945.
The Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage records that the painting was seized from a Czartoryski hiding place in 1939 and last documented in Lower Silesia in January 1945.
The Amber Room
1701 to 1713 · Baltic amber sawn into strips about 5 mm...
Lost
The Tsarskoye Selo museum records that German units removed the amber panelling from the Catherine Palace in 1941 and dispatched it to Koenigsberg, that its trail is lost from 1944 and that every search since has been fruitless.