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Stolen Brueghel painting resurfaces in the Netherlands after 50 years
1626) was recently found at the Gouda Museum, in the Dutch province of Limburg. This small round painting, measuring just 17 centimetres in diameter, depicts a peasant woman holding smouldering ...
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Eagle-Eyed Experts Say They’ve Solved the Mystery of a Missing Masterpiece—Half a Century After It Was Stolen
It’s now in the custody of Dutch authorities, and Polish officials have formally requested its return. The 17th-century oil painting depicts a peasant woman holding tongs with hot coals in one ...
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"Indiana Jones of the Art World" helps police solve mystery of famous painting that vanished from museum in 1974
The painting depicts a peasant woman holding tongs with smoldering embers in one hand and a cauldron of water in the other, a reference to an old Dutch proverb: "Never believe a person who carries ...
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Art Sleuth Helps Track Stolen Bruegel Painting to Dutch Museum
A round painting by the Flemish-Dutch master Pieter Bruegel the Younger ... from the National Museum in Gdańsk. It depicts a peasant woman carrying smoldering embers with tongs in one hand ...
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Could this Van Gogh have come from Nazi Germany?
A Peasant Woman digging (summer 1885 ... Hendrik Enno van Gelder (1876-1960), a Dutch art historian and museum director. Van Gelder's son, Jan Gerrit (1903-1980), was also an art historian ...