The Concert

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The Concert is an unfinished and now missing painting by Dutch Golden Age master Johannes Vermeer, depicting an intimate scene of three figures making music in a domestic interior.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf painting
stolen artwork
accessionNumber P13e1
artForm oil on canvas
artist Johannes Vermeer
catalogueRaisonneNumber Vermeer catalogue number 24
collection Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum collection
completion circa 1664
country United States
countryOfOrigin Dutch Republic
creator Johannes Vermeer
dateStolen 1990-03-18
depicts domestic interior
female singer
man playing a lute
three figures making music
woman playing a harpsichord
estimatedValue approximately 200 million US dollars
event Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum theft
formerLocation Boston
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
genre genre painting
hasPart Persian carpet on table
chair with lion-head finials
checkerboard floor
harpsichord
lute
paintings on the back wall
hasTitle Het concert
The Concert
inception circa 1664
influencedBy Dutch domestic genre tradition
isOneOf most valuable missing paintings in the world
languageOfTitle English
materialUsed oil paint
movement Dutch Golden Age painting
orientation landscape format
originalTitleLanguage Dutch
partOf Vermeer’s mature period
status missing
stolen
style chiaroscuro lighting
intimate interior scene
subjectMatter domestic life
music-making
social interaction
surface canvas

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Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
The Concert ("Het concert")
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