Yet only three other surviving Vermeers include three figures (one is “Christ in the House of Martha and Mary,” the other two are set in a bar and in a brothel). At least nine other Vermeers include musical instruments, mostly in the hands of women.
“The Concert” is characteristic of the artist and also a little uncharacteristic. (The current consensus is 37, but some scholars still have doubts about the genuineness of three of them.) The Vermeer is generally considered the rarest and most valuable of the lost treasures - at least partly because so few of his paintings are known to exist. This small painting, slightly more than two-feet square, was displayed back-to-back with Govaert Flinck’s “Landscape with Obelisk” on a small tabletop in the Gardner Museum’s magnificent Dutch Room. (You could listen to the trailer and subscribe to be notified as soon as there are new episodes here.)īefore that, we asked critic Lloyd Schwartz to take a look at the art our city lost: 'The Concert' Johannes Vermeer 1663-1666 Johannes Vermeer's "The Concert." (Courtesy Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum) In September, WBUR and the Boston Globe are launching a podcast, titled Last Seen, that will dive into the heist's mysteries.
Twenty-eight years later, it remains the largest unsolved art heist. On the morning of March 18, 1990, two thieves dressed as policemen walked into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston and walked out with 13 pieces of art valued at half a billion dollars.
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