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Rembrandt paintings heist at Taft Museum bungled in 1973

On Tuesday, Dec. 18, 1973, at 1:57 a.m., two men wearing ski masks and gloves pointed a pistol at a night watchman at the Taft Museum of Art and forced him to take them inside to the second-floor gallery. They taped his arms and legs to a chair, then stole two paintings and left. The paintings, “Man Leaning on a Sill” …

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The Netherlands Is Ready to Spend $198 Million to Bring a Rembrandt Self-Portrait Back Home for Good

The Dutch government is ready to pay the art-collecting Rothschild family $198 million—including $170 million from state coffers—for a work by Rembrandt van Rijn, so that the painting can remain “public property in the Netherlands forever.” The Dutch Golden Age painter’s 1636 self-portrait, titled The Standard Bearer (De Vaandeldrager), has been in the hands of private collectors for centuries, from England’s …

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