Another Major Art Heist in 10 days in the Netherlands
Thieves pried open the emergency door of the IJsselstein City Museum, a small Dutch museum, with an iron bar and made off with six 17th- and 19th-century landscape paintings. The paintings included three by Jan van Goyen, a prolific contemporary of Rembrandt who died in 1656. The others were a 17th century painting by Pieter de Neyn and 19th-century pieces by Willem Roelofs and Adrianus van Everdingen. A Van Goyen was sold by Christie’s’ in London six months ago for more than $126,000. The paintings were originally on loan from the Dutch government.
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