Lost artworks

A lost self-portrait, by Raphael

Lost artworks are original pieces of art that credible sources indicate once existed but that cannot be accounted for in museums or private collections or are known to have been destroyed deliberately or accidentally, or neglected through ignorance and lack of connoisseurship.

For lost literary works, see Lost work. For films, see List of lost films.

Notable Loss Events

Doge's Palace Fire, 1577

See also Doge's Palace, Venice: History Refurbishment works were being held at the palace in 1577, when a fire (the third at the palace) destroyed the Scrutinio Room and the Great Council Chamber, together with works by Gentile da Fabriano, Pisanello, Alvise Vivarini, Vittore Carpaccio, Giovanni Bellini, Pordenone, and Titian.

Bombardment of Brussels, 13-15 August 1695

See also Bombardment of Brussels

Palace of Whitehall Fire, 4 January 1698

See also Palace of Whitehall Demise

Coudenberg Palace Fire, 3 February 1731

See also Coudenberg History

Royal Alcázar of Madrid Fire, 24 December 1734

See also Alcázar of Madrid: The fire of 1734

Kroměříž Palace Fire, March 1752

See also Kroměříž Archbishop's Palace

Exton Old Park Fire, 1810

See also Exton Hall (article for the replacement building)

Belvoir Castle Fire, 1816

See also Belvoir Castle

Burning of Parliament, 16 October 1834

See also Burning of Parliament The Burning of the Houses of Parliament is the popular name for the fire which destroyed the Palace of Westminster, the ancient home of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, on 16 October 1834. The blaze, which started in two overheated chimney flues, spread rapidly throughout the medieval complex and developed into the biggest conflagration to occur in London since the Great Fire of 1666, attracting massive crowds. The fire lasted for many hours and gutted most of the Palace, including the converted St Stephen's Chapel (the meeting place of the House of Commons), the Lords Chamber, the Painted Chamber and the official residences of the Speaker and the Clerk of the House of Commons.

Library of Congress Fire, 24 December 1851

See also Library of Congress

Museum Boymans Fire, 1864

See also Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (replacement organisation

Messina Earthquake, 28 December 1908

See also 1908 Messina Earthquake

Glaspalast Fire, 6 June 1931

See also Glaspalast: Fire

The Glaspalast (Glass Palace) was a glass and iron exhibition building in Munich modeled after The Crystal Palace in London. The building was destroyed in a fire on June 6, 1931,[1] a fate shared with the other crystal palaces. The cause of the fire was later determined to be arson. The fire in the Glaspalast damaged more than 1,000 paintings and sculptures and destroyed more than 110 artworks from the early 19th century including many paintings by Caspar David Friedrich, Moritz von Schwind, Karl Blechen and Philipp Otto Runge. Only 80 artworks were salvaged after the fire.

Word War II, 1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945

Gosford House Fire, 1940

See also Gosford House

During World War II, the British Army occupied the house, and burnt out the main rooms of the central block.

Bombing of Bremen, 1942

See also Bombing of Bremen in World War II

Battle of Monte Cassino, 17 January – 18 May 1944

See also Battle of Monte Cassino

Bombing of Dresden, February 1945

See also Bombing of Dresden

The "Kriegsinferno", May 1945

See also Antikensammlung Berlin (Berlin antiquities collection) : The "Kriegsinfero

In 1941, safeguarding the objects in the Berlin antiquities collection and in other collections began. What could be moved was largely taken to the Flaktürme at the Berlin Zoo and at Friedrichshain, and in the vaults of the Berlin Mint. With the bombing becoming worse, these places (especially the Flak-towers) seemed unsuitable, and on 10 March 1945 it was decided to move the artworks to mines west of Berlin. After about ten convoys had started to move the collections there, however, it became too dangerous to do so, and this was postponed to the first week of April. So a large part of the small art and the supply of the magazines of the antique collection was instead taken to the Grasleben mines and to Kaiserroda in Thuringia. In the course of the war, the Altes Museum and the Neue Museum were destroyed, and the Museumsneubau and some of the exhibits were damaged. In spite of the concern over their safety, the art treasures in the Flaktürmen were hardly damaged during the Battle of Berlin.

The worst, however, came after the end of the battle, with the guards everywhere deserting their posts and leaving all the stores to be plundered by both Germans and Russians. In two fires in the Flakturm Friedrichshain in May 1945 a large part of the art treasures stored there was probably destroyed including several antiquities. Others were confiscated by the Red Army and taken back to Moscow and Leningrad as "spoils of war", and have still not been returned. How much was taken in this way is still unknown; 25 Greek vases that can be shown to belong to the Berlin collection were shown in 2005 at an exhibition entitled "Archaeology of the War" in the Pushkin Museum in Moscow. Further vases were discovered in the Muscovite Historic Museum. Several vases, that were loaned in 1903 to the Provincial-Museum at Poznań (13 of the 19 vases are demonstrably from the Berlin collection), and several portrait busts that were loaned from 1908 to the Schloss there, were subsumed by Poland in 1945 into the Muzeum Narodowe in Poznań, where they are still held today.

How great the losses were over the whole collection could first be investigated and documented after the reunification of the collection, with the first catalogue of losses appearing in 2005. This catalogue named five large bronze statues (including the "Calvatone Victory"), approximately 300 marble and stone statues, more than 40 reliefs, more than 20 stone architectural elements, approximately 30 stone vases, more than 1500 vases and vase-fragments (including pieces by the Amasis Painter, Berlin Painter, Brygos Painter, Edinburgh Painter, Exekias, Geras Painter and Pan Painter), 100 pieces of gold jewellery and more than 150 engraved gems.

Oklahoma City Bombing, 19 April 1995

Many works of art were in the Murrah Building Bombing when it was destroyed in the Oklahoma City bombing . The Oklahoma City National Memorial displays art that survived the bombing.

• Sky Ribbons: An Oklahoma Tribute, (1978) Fiber sculpture by Gerhardt Knodel
• Columbines at Cascade Canyon, Photograph by Albert D. Edgar
• Winter Scene, Photography by Curt Clyne
• Morning Mist, Photograph by David Halpern
• Charon's Sentinels, Photograph by David Halpern
• Soaring Currents, Sisal and rayon textile by Karen Chapnick
• Monolith, Porcelain sculpture by Frank Simons
• Through the Looking Glass, Wool Textile by Anna Burgress
• Palm Tree Coil, Bronze sculpture by Jerry McMillan

An untitled acrylic sculpture by Fred Eversley was severely damaged, but survived the blast.

Roman Statue of Zeus at Olympia, marble and bronze (restored), following the type established by Phidias (Hermitage Museum)

World Trade Center Collapse, 11 September 2001

Many works of art were destroyed in the September 11, 2001 attacks when the World Trade Center buildings collapsed.

• Ideogram (1967) stainless steel sculpture by James Rosati
• Cloud Fortress (1975) a large, black granite piece by Japanese artist Masayuki Nagare, destroyed in the 9/11 rescue and recovery efforts.
• The World Trade Center Tapestry a 20' x 35' tapestry by Joan Miró that hung in the South Tower Lobby.
• Sky Gate, New York (1977–78) large wooden sculpture by Louise Nevelson
• A memorial fountain for the victims of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing by Elyn Zimmerman
• World Trade Center Stabile (1971) a 25' red steel sculpture by Alexander Calder. Approximately 30% of the sculpture was recovered.
• Some 300 sculptures and drawings by Auguste Rodin, part of the Cantor Fitzgerald collection.
• Needle Tower (1968) by Kenneth Snelson.
• Recollection Pond, a tapestry by Romare Bearden.
• Path Mural, by Germaine Keller.
• Commuter Landscape, a large mural by Cynthia Mailman.
• Fan Dancing with the Birds, a mural by Hunt Slonem.
• The Entablature Series by Roy Lichtenstein
• Approximately 40,000 negatives of photographs by Jacques Lowe documenting the presidency of John F. Kennedy.
• The Sphere, an abstract sculpture by Fritz Koenig, survived the collapse but was seriously damaged, and now serves as a memorial.

Countless other works of art and valuable artifacts, found in safe deposit boxes located throughout the towers, were also destroyed. Two other sculptures were damaged, but not destroyed by the attacks. These are Red Cube by Isamu Noguchi and Joie de Vivre by Mark di Suvero, located down the street from the World Trade Center. They were repaired and still stand today.

Momart fire, 24 May 2004

Many works by Britartists in the Saatchi collection, as well as work by other artists in different collections, were destroyed in the Momart warehouse fire in Leyton, east London, on May 24, 2004.

• Vertical Light by Patrick Heron (1957), and some 50 other paintings
• Altair by Gillian Ayres (1989), and 17 other paintings
• Craigie Horsfield's black and white photograph of Barcelona, Carrer Muntaner (1996)
• Hell by Jake and Dinos Chapman (1998 to 2000)
• The Last Thing I Said To You Is Don't Leave Me Here ("The Hut") by Tracey Emin (1999)
• Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963–1995 ("The Tent") by Tracey Emin
• Mood Change One by Michael Craig-Martin
• The Event by William Redgrave, a bronze triptych; about a third was salvaged by his son, Chris Redgrave.
• Down Below, a sculpture by Sarah Lucas
• Hedone's (1996), Rust Never Sleeps (1996) and Trou Normand (1997), by Patrick Caulfield
• Floater, by Gavin Turk
• Sixteen paintings by Damien Hirst
• Cyclops Cameo (1995), Opal (1996), and eight other works by Helen Chadwick
• Nine works by Barry Flanagan
• Clown, a gloss painting on wood and other works by Gary Hume
• Afrobluff, and other works by Chris Ofili
• Works by Paula Rego
• Forty works by Adrian Heath

List of Notable Lost Artworks

List of Notable Lost Artworks

Status	Date Created	Known As	Creator	Commission/Provenance Note	Loss Event	Year Lost	Surviving copies and documentation
Classical era
Destroyed		The "Colossus of Rhodes", one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
Destroyed		The "Statue of Zeus at Olympia", one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
Destroyed		The "Athena Parthenos", originally housed in the Parthenon
Destroyed		The "Lemnian Athena", a bronze	Phidias	housed in the Parthenon
Destroyed	4th-century BCE	The "Aphrodite of Knidos", a marble sculpture	Praxiteles
Destroyed	mid-5th century BCE	Paintings of the "Sack of Troy" and "Odysseus in the Underworld"	Polygnotus of Thasos	in the Lesche of Knidos at Delphi			Described in detail by Pausanias in his Description of Greece, Chapter X, 25-31
Destroyed		A colossal bronze seated Hercules	Lysippus	for the acropolis of Tarentum in southern Italy, was taken to Rome by Fabius Maximus, 209 BCE, and installed on the Capitoline Hill; later taken to Constantinople to decorate the Hippodrome	Melted down by invading Crusaders during the Fourth Crusade	1204
5th century
Destroyed	c. 425 CE	Mosaic portraits of members of the western and eastern imperial families and the bishop of Ravenna		commissioned by Galla Placidia in the Church of San Giovanni Evangelista, Ravenna		before 1747
Destroyed		The Regisole		An equestrian monument to Theodoric the Great, King of the Ostrogoths, erected at Ravenna. Moved to Pavia in the Middle Ages, it stood before the cathedral	The Jacobin Club in Pavia considered it a symbol of monarchy and destroyed it	1796
6th century
Destroyed		The Buddhas of Bamyan			Destroyed by the Taliban	2001
8th century
Destroyed		A famous image of Christ Chalkites on the Chalke Gate			Many icons were destroyed during the reign of Leo III the Isaurian. Only a few icons from this period survive, saved outside of imperial control at Saint Catherine's Monastery in the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt
11th century
Destroyed		The final portion of the Bayeux Tapestry			Deliberately removed at some point, and is now lost
13th century
Destroyed	1277–1285	The facade mosaics and the fresco cycles, with stories from the New and Old Testament	Pietro Cavallini	In the Basilica di San Paolo fuori le Mura in Rome	Fire	1823
14th century
Missing		Panels of the great Maestà altarpiece of Duccio di Buoninsegna, painted for the Duomo of Siena and representing the Coronation of the Virgin, Virgin of the Assumption, Ascension of Christ and Christ in Majesty
Destroyed		The great Navicella mosaic	Giotto di Bondone	Outside Old Saint Peter's Basilica	Moved and extensively reworked in the 17th century	1600-1699
Missing		Allegorical fresco of the Commune of Florence portrayed as a seated judge with sceptre, flanked by figures of Fortitude, Prudence, Justice and Temperance	Giotto	painted for the Palazzo del Podestà, now the Bargello, Florence			Described by Giorgio Vasari
Missing		Stories of the Apostles frescoes	Giotto	For the Giugni Chapel of the Basilica of Santa Croce, Florence
Missing		Painting of the Virgin	Giotto	Bequeathed by the poet Petrarch to Francesca da Carrara, lord of Padua, in 1370
Destroyed		Saint Margaret of Cortona bringing Suppolino back to Life fresco	Ambrogio Lorenzetti	In the Church of Santa Margherita, Cortona	Destroyed	~1650
Missing		Portrait of Petrarch's Laura de Noves	Simone Martini				Subject of one of Petrarch's sonnets
15th century
Destroyed		Virgin Enthroned with Saints and Angels (1402)	Lorenzo Monaco		Destroyed by fire in the Friedrichshain Flakturm following the capture of Berlin, May 1945	1945
Missing		Statue of Joshua in terra cotta	Donatello	For the north tribune of the Duomo of Florence (c. 1410)	Disappeared in the 18th century	1700-1799
Missing	1428	Statue of Abundance (Dovizia) in stone	Donatello	On a column placed first in the Baptistery of the Duomo, later in the Mercato Vecchio, Florence	Replaced in the 18th century, now lost	1700-1799
Destroyed		Frescoes	Gentile da Fabriano and Pisanello	In the Basilica of Saint John Lateran, Rome	Destroyed during reconstruction	1647
Destroyed	c. 1432	Fresco cycle of 300 images of Illustrious Men	Masolino da Panicale and Paolo Uccello	For the Palace of Cardinal Orsini in Rome			A watercolor copy by Leonardo da Besozzo survives
Destroyed	1425	The Sagra del Carmine, monochrome fresco representing the consecration of the church in 1422	Masaccio	For the cloister of Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence	Destroyed	by 1600
Destroyed		Fresco of the Confirmation of the Rules of the Carmelites	Filippo Lippi	In the cloister of Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence	Fire	1771	A fragment uncovered in 1860 survives in place
Missing	1423	A Crucifix, painted	Fra Angelico	for the Dominican church of Santa Maria Novella, Florence
Destroyed	1456	Last Judgment	Fra Angelico, school of		Destroyed by fire in the Friedrichshain Flakturm following the capture of Berlin, May 1945	1945
Destroyed		Fresco of the Flagellation	Andrea del Castagno	In the cloister of the Basilica of Santa Croce, Florence	Destroyed in the 17th century	1600-1699
Destroyed	1450–1452	Frescoes of the life of the Virgin	Domenico Veneziano begun by, and completed by Andrea del Castagno	In the church of Sant' Egidio (Santa Maria Nuova), Florence	Destroyed	1594
Destroyed		Fresco cycle of the life of Santa Rosa, painted	Benozzo Gozzoli	For the church of Santa Rosa, Viterbo	1632 renovations to the church	1632	Autograph and other drawings and a contemporary description survive
Destroyed		Altarpiece with scenes from the life of Saint Nicholas	Antonello da Messina	For the Confraternity of San Nicolò della Montagna in Messina. Seen by Cavalcaselle in 1871	Destroyed in the Messina earthquake	1908
Destroyed	c. 1496	Virgin and Child in Glory with Saints John the Evangelist, Francis, Jerome and John the Baptist	Domenico Ghirlandaio		Destroyed by fire in the Friedrichshain Flakturm following the capture of Berlin, May 1945	1945
Destroyed		Several original paintings on "pagan" subjects	Sandro Botticelli		Botticelli burned them in the Bonfire of the Vanities
Destroyed	c. 1478	Portrait of Piero di Cosimo de' Medici	Botticelli	Formerly Museo Civico Gaetano Filangieri, Naples	Destroyed in World War II	1939-45	Photographs survive
Destroyed	1487-90	Frescoes on mythological themes, including the Forge of Vulcan	Botticelli, Ghirlandaio, Filippino Lippi and Perugino	For Lorenzo de' Medici in the great hall and external loggia of his villa at Spedaletto, near Volterra	Damaged by damp and finally destroyed by fire in the early 19th century	1800-1850
Destroyed		Fresco of the Triumph of Trajan	Vincenzo Foppa	Done for the Medici bank in the Via de' Bossi, Milan			A fragment survives in the Wallace Collection, London
Destroyed	c. 1485	Altarpiece for the church of Santa Maria dei Battuti in Belluno	Alvise Vivarini		Destroyed by fire in Berlin during World War II	1939-45
Destroyed	1488	Frescoes, including a Baptism of Christ for the Belvedere Chapel of the Vatican	Andrea Mantegna		Destroyed under Pope Pius VI to permit construction of the Pio-Clementino Museum	1780
Destroyed	1457–60	Lamentation of the People over the Dead Gattamelata	Andrea Mantegna	A fresco in the Palazzo Gattamelata, Padua	Fire on November 5th	1760
Destroyed		Saint Catherine of Siena Altarpiece (Sacra Conversazione)	Giovanni Bellini	In the Chapel of the Rosary of the Church of Santi Giovanni e Paolo, Venice	Fire	1867
Destroyed	c. 1494	The Supper at Emmaus	Giovanni Bellini	Painted for Giorgio Cornaro of Venice	Fire in Vienna in the 18th century	1700-1799
Destroyed	c. 1478-80	Fresco, Ascension with Christ in Glory	Melozzo da Forlì	For the choir of the Church of the Santi Apostoli, Rome	Renovation to enlarge the choir	1711	Fragments survive in the Vatican and Quirinal
Destroyed		The Court of Pan	Luca Signorelli		Destroyed by fire in the Friedrichshain Flakturm following the capture of Berlin, May 1945	1945
Destroyed	1474	Madonna and Saints fresco	Signorelli	In the Tower of Città di Castello	Earthquake	1789
Destroyed		The Calumny of Apelles and The Feast of Pan frescoes	Signorelli	Painted for the audience chamber (Camera delle Torre) of the Palazzo Petrucci (Palazzo del Magnifico), Siena
Destroyed		Adoration of the Magi fresco	Perugino	For the convent of S. Giusto alla Mura	Preparing the city for the Siege of Florence	1529
Destroyed		Decorations for the Castel Sant'Angelo of the life and court of Pope Alexander VI and his children					Cited by Vasari
Missing		The lower left panel of the Ghent Altarpiece, titled The Just Judges	Van Eyck		Stolen	1934
Destroyed	c. 1441	Triptych of the Virgin and Child with Donor	Van Eyck	painted for Nicholas van Maelbeke, provost of St. Martin's Cathedral, Ypres	Removed from the cathedral and lost during the French occupation of The Netherlands, 1792–1815	1792-1815	A 1629 copy was acquired by the Bruges museum in 2007
Destroyed	c. 1444	Crucifixion	Petrus Christus (attributed)	Formerly Dessau Museum	Destroyed by bombing in World War II	1939-45
Destroyed	1439-	The Justice of Trajan and the Justice of Herkenbald	Rogier van der Weyden	Painted for the 'Gulden Camere' (Golden Chamber) of the Brussels Town Hall	Destroyed in the French Bombardment of Brussels	1695
Destroyed		Descent from the Cross altarpiece	Jan Mabuse	Executed for the church of Middelburg	Fire	1568
Presumed Destroyed	c. 1475	Tapestries of the Great History of Troy for the Painted Chamber of the Palace of Westminster, London			Removed 1820 and sold for ten pounds sterling to a London merchant	1820
Destroyed		Frescos	Piero della Francesca	In the Vatican Palace, destroyed (or covered) by Raphael before painting the Stanze
Destroyed		A terracotta statue of a horse (part of the monument to duke Francesco Sforza)	Leonardo da Vinci		Destroyed by French soldiers during the occupation of Milan	1499
Destroyed		Frescos representing hunting scenes in the Castle of Pavia	Pisanello		Destroyed by French soldiers	1527
Missing	1490	Eve	Tullio Lombardo	Carved for the tomb of Doge Andrea Vendramin in the church of Santa Maria dei Servi, Venice. Together with its companion statue Adam, now in the Metropolitan Museum	Disappeared from public view around 1819 when the Vendramin monument was moved to the church of Santi Giovanni e Paolo in Venice	1819
16th century
Missing		The Trial of Saint Stephen	Vittore Carpaccio	One of a series of five canvases for the Scuola di San Stefano, Venice	Untraced after 1806	1806	A drawing for the modello survives in the Uffizi
Destroyed		Virgin and Child Enthroned with Saints Faustinus and Jovita, patron saints of Brescia (the Averoldi Altarpiece)	Carpaccio	Formerly sacristy of S. Giovanni Evangelista, Brescia	Sold to the National Gallery London, lost in a shipwreck crossing the English Channel
Destroyed		The Birth of Paris (Finding of the Infant Paris?)	Giorgione	In the collections of Taddeo Contarini, Venice and the Archduke Leopold Wilhelm, Brussels			Known through a copy by David Teniers the Younger, now in the Musées Royaux de Beaux-Arts, Brussels. Engraved by Theodoor van Kessel, 1660. A fragment of two shepherds survives.
Destroyed	c. 1507-08	Assumption of the Virgin	Fra Bartolomeo		Fire in the Friedrichshain Flakturn following the capture of Berlin, May 1945	1945
Missing	before 1500	Medusa (unfinished)	Leonardo da Vinci	In the collection of Cosimo I of Tuscany, 1553	Lost since the end of the 16th century	1550-99
Missing	1508	Leda and the Swan	Leonardo da Vinci		Disappeared from the French royal palace of Fontainebleau after 1623	After 1623
Missing		The Battle of Anghiari	Leonardo da Vinci		Palazzo Vecchio
Destroyed		Cartoon of the battle of Cascina, Palazzo Vecchio	Michelangelo		Putatively destroyed by Bandinelli
Missing	circa 1530	A painting of Leda and the Swan	Michelangelo	Given by the artist to his friend Antonio Mini who took it to France	Disappeared in France
Destroyed		A marble Cupid	Michelangelo	Later owned by Isabella d'Este and Charles I of England	Fire at Whitehall Palace, London	1698
Presumed Destroyed		Portrait of a Lady	Caravaggio	Formerly in the Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum, Berlin	Friedrichshain Flakturm, Berlin, 1945	1945	Portrait of a Lady by Caravaggio, formerly in the Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum, Berlin
Missing	c. 1492-94	A marble Hercules	Michelangelo	Michelangelo's first free-standing statue; installed in the Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, 1506, sent to France in the 16th century	Disappeared from the French royal palace of Fontainebleau in the 18th century	1700-99
Missing		A bronze statue of David resting his foot on the severed head of Goliath	Michelangelo
Destroyed		A bronze statue of pope Julius II in the act of blessing	Michelangelo	On San Petronio basilica's facade in Bologna	Destroyed by the people of Bologna	1511
Destroyed		Altarpiece of the Madonna and Child with St. Mary Magdalen and St. Lucy (Madonna of Albinea)	Antonio da Correggio
Destroyed		Fresco of The Coronation of the Virgin for the church of San Giovanni Evangelista, Parma	Correggio		Destroyed	1587	Fragments in National Gallery, London, other museums
Destroyed		Fresco of Saint Mary Magdalen in the Desert,	Correggio	Painted for Veronica Gambara’s Palazzo della Delizie, in the town of Correggio	Destruction of Palazzo della Delizie	ca. 1555	Described in a letter dated Sept. 3, 1528 from Veronica Gambara to Isabella d’Este
Destroyed		Baronci altarpiece (the Crowning of Saint Nicholas of Tolentino)	Raphael	Raphael's first recorded commission, it was made for Andrea Baronci's chapel in the church of Sant'Agostino in Citta di Castello, near Urbino	Earthquake	1700-99	At least four fragments survive (Louvre, Capodimonte)
Missing		Saint Catherine of Alexandria	Raphael	Formerly owned by Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel	Presumed lost		Depicted in an engraving by Wenceslas Hollar
Missing	1537-39	Frescoes for the Massimi Chapel at Santa Trinità dei Monti, Rome, representing Christ at the Pool of Bethesda, Christ and the Centurion, the Transfiguration, the Expulsion from the Temple and (possibly) the Feeding of the Five Thousand.	Pierino del Vaga		Detached during Napoleonic times and lost by 1840	Before 1840	A companion fresco, The Raising of Lazarus, now transferred to canvas, is in the Victoria and Albert Museum
Missing		The Wedding of Neptune and Amphitrite silver bowl	Cellini		Taken from the Chapter of the Basilica of Santa Barbara, Modena, by the French	1796
Destroyed		Ascension of Mary altarpiece (The ‘Heller altar’)	Dürer	The central panel added to the collection of Elector Maximilian of Bavaria	Fire	1729
Destroyed		Cardinal Albrecht of Brandenburg, Archbishop of Mainz	Cranach the Elder		Fire in the Friedrichshain Flakturn following the capture of Berlin, May 1945	1945
Destroyed		Virgin and Child with Four Female Saints	Cranach the Elder		Fire in the Friedrichshain Flakturn following the capture of Berlin, May 1945	1945
Destroyed		Madonna and Child with Infant Saint John	Cranach the Elder		Fire in the Friedrichshain Flakturn following the capture of Berlin, May 1945	1945
Destroyed		Duke Henry of Saxony	Cranach the Elder		Bombing of Dresden, February 1945	1945
Missing		Market Day	Pieter Brueghel the Elder				Depicted in the 17th-century gallery of Cornelis van der Geest painted by Willem van Hoecht
Destroyed		The Farmers Brawl	Pieter Brueghel the Elder		Bombing of Dresden, February	1945
Destroyed		Whitehall Mural of Henry VIII and family in Whitehall Palace, London	Hans Holbein the Younger		Fire	1698
Destroyed		The Family of Sir Thomas More	Holbein		Fire at Kremsier Castle, the Moravian residence of Carl von Liechtenstein, archbishop of Olmutz	1752
Missing		The Goldsmith Hans von Zurich	Holbein		Presumed lost		Copied by Lucas Vosterman and engraved by Wenceslas Hollar
Destroyed		Battle of Spoleto	Titian		Fire at the Doge's Palace	1577
Destroyed		Battle of Cadore	Titian		Fire at the Doge's Palace	1577
Destroyed		Doge Gritti Praying to the Virgin	Titian		Fire at the Doge's Palace	1577
Destroyed		Coronation of Frederick Barbarossa	Tintoretto		Fire at the Doge's Palace	1577
Destroyed		Excommunication of Barbarossa	Tintoretto		Fire at the Doge's Palace	1577
Destroyed		Last Judgment	Tintoretto		Fire at the Doge's Palace	1577
Destroyed		Homage of Frederick Barbarossa	Paolo Veronese		Fire at the Doge's Palace	1577
Destroyed		Works	Gentile da Fabriano	Fire at the Doge's Palace	1577
Destroyed		Works	Pisanello		Fire at the Doge's Palace	1577
Destroyed		Pope Alexander III in the Church of St. Marks	Carpaccio		Fire at the Doge's Palace	1577
Destroyed		Meeting of the Pope and the Doge at Ancona	Carpaccio		Fire at the Doge's Palace	1577
Destroyed		Otho Promising to Mediate Between Venice and Barbarossa	Alvise Vivarini		Fire at the Doge's Palace	1577
Destroyed		Paradise	Guariento		Fire at the Doge's Palace	1577
Destroyed		Battle of Salvore	Gentile Bellini		Fire at the Doge's Palace	1577
Destroyed		Presentation of the White Candle to the Pope	Gentile Bellini		Fire at the Doge's Palace	1577
Destroyed		Presentation of the Eight Standards and Trumpets to the Doge	Giovanni Bellini		Fire at the Doge's Palace	1577
Missing		Portrait of Isabella d'Este in Red	Titian				A copy by Rubens is in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Found	ca. 1595	The Francesco St Jerome	Palma Giovane		Rediscovered in 2008	1750-1800
Destroyed		Martyrdom of St Peter for the Chapel of the Rosary, Santi Giovanni e Paolo, Venice			Fire	1867	Copies and engravings survive
Destroyed		Double Portrait of Emperor Charles V and his wife Isabella of Portugal	Titian		Alcazar palace fire, Madrid	1734	A copy by Rubens survives
Destroyed	1561	Penitent Magdalene	Titian	Painted for Philip II of Spain	Fire at Bath House, London, January 21	1873
Destroyed		Ixion and Tantalus	Titian		Alcazar palace fire, Madrid	1734
Destroyed		Paintings of The Twelve Caesars	Titian		Alcazar palace fire, Madrid	1734
Missing		Venus in Front of her Mirror	Titian		Lost from the Spanish royal collection in the 19th century	1800-99	A copy by Rubens survives
Missing	1551	Frescoes for the first floor loggia of the Villa Soranzo at Treville (near Castelfranco Veneto)	Veronese and by Giambattista Zelotti	Designed by Michele Sanmicheli	Fresco fragments were removed from the villa and dispersed when it was destroyed between 1817-19	1819
Destroyed	c. 1580	Apollo and Juno	Veronese	Painted for the Fondaco dei Tedeschi, Venice	Fire in the Friedrichshain Flakturm, following the capture of Berlin, May 1945	1945
Destroyed	c. 1580	Saturn Helps Religion to Overcome Heresy	Veronese	Painted for the Fondaco dei Tedeschi, Venice	Fire in the Friedrichshain Flakturm, following the capture of Berlin, May 1945	1945
Destroyed		Fresco of God the Father and the Four Evangelists	Pontormo	In the Capponi Chapel, Church of Santa Felicita, Florence	Remodeling in the 18th-century	1700-99
Destroyed		Unfinished fresco of the Last Judgment at the Basilica of San Lorenzo, Florence	Pontormo		Renovations in the 18th-century	1700-99
17th century
Missing		A Christus head	Annibale Carracci				A lost Christus head by Annibale Carracci
Destroyed	1602	The Armada Tapestries	Vroom, Hendrick	For Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham; sold to James I, 1616 and placed in the House of Lords, London by Oliver Cromwell, 1650	Fire: Burning of Parliament	1834	Engraved by John Pine, 1739
Destroyed		Equestrian bronze statue of Henry IV of France	Giovanni da Bologna	Presented to Marie de Medicis by Cosimo II of Tuscany in 1614	Melted for cannon during the French Revolution	1789-99
Missing		Time Saving Truth from Envy and Discord	Nicolas Poussin		Untraced since 1840	1840
Destroyed	c. 1630	The Martyrdom of Erasmus	Nicolas Poussin		Bombing of Dresden, February 1945	1945
Destroyed	1637–40	Penance, one of the seven Sacraments	Nicolas Poussin		Fire at Belvoir Castle	1816
Destroyed	1658	Queen Esther Approaching the Palace of Ahasuerus	Claude Lorrain		Fire at Fonthill Abbey	1755
Missing	1666-73	Aeneas and the Sibyl of Cumae	Claude Lorrain	One of four works commissioned by Prince Falconieri			Liber Veritatis 183
Missing	1601–02	Raising of the Cross altarpiece	Peter Paul Rubens	Painted for the Church of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme, Rome
Missing	c. 1609	Judith Beheading Holofernes	Rubens			Known only though the 1610 engraving by Cornelis Galle the Elder
Destroyed		Madonna of the Rosary	Rubens	Painted for the Royal Chapel of the Dominican Church, Brussels	French Bombardment of Brussels	1695
Destroyed	1610	Virgin Adorned with Flowers by Saint Anne	Rubens	Painted for the Church of the Carmelite Friars, Brussels	French Bombardment of Brussels	1695
Destroyed	1613	Saint Job Triptych	Rubens	Painted for Saint Nicholas Church, Brussels	French Bombardment of Brussels	1695
Destroyed		Cambyses Appointing Otanes Judge	Rubens	Decoration for the Magistrates' Hall, Brussels	French Bombardment of Brussels	1695
Destroyed		Judgment of Solomon	Rubens	Decoration for the Magistrates' Hall, Brussels	French Bombardment of Brussels	1695
Destroyed		Last Judgment	Rubens	Decoration for the Magistrates' Hall, Brussels	French Bombardment of Brussels	1695
Destroyed	c. 1615	Neptune and Amphitrite	Rubens	Fire in the Friedrichshain Flakturm, following the capture of Berlin, May 1945	1945
Destroyed		Nativity	Rubens	Painted for the Chapel of Coudenberg Palace, Brussels	Fire	1731
Destroyed		Adoration of the Magi	Rubens	Painted for the Chapel of Coudenberg Palace, Brussels	Fire	1731
Destroyed		Pentecost	Rubens	Painted for the Chapel of Coudenberg Palace, Brussels	Fire	1731
Missing	1617–18	Susannah and the Elders	Rubens				Engraved 1620 by Lucas Vosterman
Missing	1618	Satyr, Nymph, Putti and Leopards	Rubens				Now known only from engraving
Destroyed		The Abduction of Proserpine	Rubens		Fire at Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, February 5, 1861	1861	Engraved before 1621 by Pieter Soutman
Destroyed	1622	Crucifixion with Mary, St. John, Magdalen	Rubens		English Civil War: English Parliamentarians in the Queen's Chapel, Somerset House, London, 1643	1643
Destroyed	1628	Portrait of Philip IV of Spain	Rubens		Incendiary attack at the Kunsthaus, Zurich, in 1985	1985
Destroyed	c. 1635-38	Diana and Nymphs Surprised by Satyrs	Rubens		Fire in the Friedrichshain Flakturm, following the capture of Berlin, May 1945	1945
Missing		Equestrian Portrait of the Archduke Albert	Rubens
Destroyed		Equestrian Portrait of Philip IV of Spain	Rubens		Alcazar royal palace fire, Madrid, 1734	1734	A copy is in the Uffizi Gallery
Destroyed		The Continence of Scipio	Rubens		Fire in the Western Exchange, Old Bond Street, London, March 1836	1836
Destroyed		The Lion Hunt	Rubens	Removed by Napoleon's agents from Schloss Schleissheim, near Munich, 1800	Fire at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux	1870
Destroyed		Equestrian Portrait of the Duke of Buckingham	Rubens	Later owned by the Earl of Jersey at Osterley Park	Fire	1949
Destroyed		Series of 39 ceiling paintings for the Jesuit Church in Antwerp (nl:Carolus Borromeuskerk#Branden, Dutch wiki)	Van Dyck (largely executed by), Rubens (designed by)		Fire	1718
Destroyed		Vision of Saint Hubert	Rubens and Jan Brueghel the Elder	Fire in the Friedrichshain Flakturm, following the capture of Berlin, May 1945	1945
Destroyed		Allegories of Sight and Smell	Jan Brueghel the Elder and other artists		Coudenberg Palace fire, Brussels	1731
Destroyed		Allegories of Hearing, Taste and Touch	Jan Brueghel the Elder and other artists		Coudenberg Palace fire, Brussels	1731
Destroyed	1634-5	Group Portrait of the Town Council of Brussels	Van Dyck		Bombardment of Brussels	1695
Destroyed		Christ Crowned with Thorns	Van Dyck		Fire in the Friedrichshain Flakturm, following the capture of Berlin, May 1945	1945
Destroyed		Lamentation over Christ	Van Dyck		Fire in the Friedrichshain Flakturm, following the capture of Berlin, May 1945	1945
Destroyed		Nymphs Surprised by Satyrs	Van Dyck		Fire in the Friedrichshain Flakturm, following the capture of Berlin, May 1945	1945
Destroyed		Saints John the Baptist and John the Evangelist	Van Dyck		Fire in the Friedrichshain Flakturm, following the capture of Berlin, May 1945	1945
Destroyed		Adoration of the Shepherds (Birth of Christ)	Gerrit van Honthorst		Car bombing of the Uffizi Gallery, Florence, May 1993	1993
Destroyed	1627	Six Gold and Silver Smiths (The "Bankers of Amsterdam")	Thomas de Keyser		Fire at the Musée de Beaux Arts, Strasbourg, August 13, 1947 (one of 30 paintings destroyed)	1947
Missing	1646	The Circumcision	Rembrandt		Went missing in the 18th century	1700-99
Destroyed		Bentheim Castle with Christ and Disciples on the Road to Emmaus	Jacob van Ruisdael		Fire at the Boijmans Museum, Rotterdam	1864
Destroyed		Large family portrait	Carel Fabritius		Fire at the Boijmans Museum, Rotterdam	1864
Destroyed		Sleeping Man	Aelbert Cuyp		Fire at the Boijmans Museum, Rotterdam	1864
Missing		A Gentleman washing his hands in a see-through room (half-door) with sculptures, artful and rare	Vermeer				Listed in the catalogue of the Dissius auction, Holland, 1696
Destroyed	c. 1601	The Inspiration of Matthew first version	Caravaggio		Fire in the Friedrichshain Flakturm, following the capture of Berlin, May 1945	1945
Destroyed	1605	Christ on the Mount of Olives	Caravaggio	From the collection of Vincenzo Giustiniani	Fire in the Friedrichshain Flakturm, following the capture of Berlin, May 1945	1945
Destroyed	c. 1597	Fillide Melandroni	Caravaggio		Fire in the Friedrichshain Flakturm, following the capture of Berlin, May 1945	1945
Missing		A portrait of Alof de Wignacourt	Caravaggio
Destroyed		Saint John	Caravaggio	Done for Sant’Anna dei Lombardi, Naples	Earthquake	1798
Destroyed		Saint Francis	Caravaggio	Done for Sant’Anna dei Lombardi, Naples	Earthquake	1798
Destroyed		Resurrection	Caravaggio	Done for Sant’Anna dei Lombardi, Naples	Earthquake	1798
Missing		Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence	Caravaggio	For the Oratorio of San Lorenzo, Palermo	Stolen	1969
Destroyed		The Conversion of Saint Paul altarpiece	Orazio Gentileschi	Done for the basilica of San Paolo fuori le Mura, Rome	Fire	1823
Destroyed		The Stoning of Saint Stephen altarpiece	Lavinia Fontana	Done for the basilica of San Paolo fuori le Mura, Rome	Fire	1823
Destroyed	1628	Hercules and Omphale	Artemisia Gentileschi	Painted for Philip IV of Spain	Alcazar palace fire, Madrid	1734
Destroyed	1650–52	Bathsheba	Artemisia Gentileschi		Fire at Gosford House, Scotland	1940
Destroyed		La Buonavventura	Bartolomeo Manfredi		Car bombing of the Uffizi Gallery, Florence, May 1993	1993
Destroyed		Ciclo Vito	Bartolomeo Manfredi		Car bombing of the Uffizi Gallery, Florence, May 1993	1993
Destroyed		Danae	Annibale Carracci	Formerly Ellesmere collection, Bridgewater House, Westminster, London	World War II, May 11, 1941	1941
Destroyed	c. 1600	Saint Gregory Praying for Souls in Purgatory, altarpiece	Annibale Caracci	For the church of San Gregorio Magno, Rome; formerly Ellesmere collection, Bridgewater House, Westminster, London	World War II, May 11, 1941	1941
Destroyed		Descent from the Cross	Ludovico Carracci	Formerly Ellesmere collection, Bridgewater House, Westminster, London	World War II, May 11, 1941	1941
Destroyed		Bacchus and Ariadne	Guido Reni	Commissioned for Queen Henrietta Maria's house at Greenwich, 1637	Destroyed in France in the 17th century by the widow of Michel Particelli d'Hemery, who was scandalized by the female nudes it contained	1700-99	A fragment with the head of Ariadne survives
Destroyed		Immaculate Conception	Guido Reni	Formerly Seville Cathedral, Spain, later in the Ellesmere collection, Bridgewater House, Westminster, London	World War II, May 11, 1941	1941
Destroyed		Bust of Charles I in marble	Bernini		Whitehall Palace fire, London	1698
Destroyed		Crucified Christ in bronze	Bernini	Formerly in the French royal collection	French Revolution	1789-99
Destroyed	1627	Expulsion of the Moors with Philip III	Velasquez		Alcazar palace fire, Madrid	1734
Destroyed		Venus and Adonis	Velasquez		Alcazar palace fire, Madrid	1734
Destroyed		Cupid and Psyche	Velasquez		Alcazar palace fire, Madrid	1734
Destroyed		Apollo and Marsyas	Velasquez		Alcazar palace fire, Madrid	1734
Missing		Francesco de Ochoa	Velasquez	One of two portraits of royal jesters for the Buen Retiro Palace, Madrid
Missing		Cardenas the Toreador	Velasquez	One of two portraits of royal jesters for the Buen Retiro Palace, Madrid
Missing		Pelican with Bucket and Donkeys	Velasquez	For the Palace of Buen Retiro, Madrid
Destroyed		Saint Bonaventure Reveals the Crucifix to Saint Thomas Aquinas	Zurbarán		Fire in the Friedrichshain Flakturm, following the capture of Berlin, May 1945	1945
Destroyed	1692–1702	Frescoes of The Labors of Hercules	Luca Giordano	For the Buen Retiro Palace of Charles II of Spain, Madrid	Destroyed in the 19th century	1800-99
Destroyed		Frescoes of the Life of Saint Benedict	Giordano	Painted for the Abbey of Monte Cassino	Bombing, Battle of Monte Cassino, February 15, 1944	1944
Destroyed		William III Leading Troops at the Battle of the Boyne	Godfrey Kneller		Fire in Grocers' Hall, London, September 22	1965
18th century
Destroyed		The White Duck	Jean-Baptiste Oudry		Stolen	1990	Jean-Baptiste Oudry's The White Duck, which was stolen in 1990
Missing		The Amber Room of the Catherine Palace			Stolen by Germans during World War II	1939-45
Destroyed	1702	Venus Imploring Jupiter on Behalf of Aeneas, the ceiling painting for the Grand Gallery of the Palais-Royal	Antoine Coypel		Destroyed in the late eighteenth century	1750-99	A sketch for it survives
Missing		The Drawing Lesson	Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin
Missing		A Girl Reciting her Gospel	Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin
Destroyed	1724–25	Still Life with Copper Kettle, Bowl with Eggs	Chardin	Fire in the Friedrichshain Flakturm, following the capture of Berlin, May 1945	1945
Destroyed	c. 1719	Decorations for the Chateau de la Muette: the Goddess Ki Mao Sao in the Kingdom of Mang in the country of Laos	Watteau		French Revolution	1789-99
Destroyed		Spring (Printemps)	Watteau	One of a series of four paintings of the Seasons, painted for the banker Pierre Crozat	Lost, then rediscovered in 1964, destroyed by fire two years later	1966
Missing		Autumn	Watteau	One of a series of four paintings of the Seasons, painted by Watteau for the banker Pierre Crozat
Missing		Winter	Watteau	One of a series of four paintings of the Seasons, painted by Watteau for the banker Pierre Crozat
Missing		Jay and Oriole Hung by the Feet	Jean-Baptiste Oudry	Exhibited at the Salon of 1751
Destroyed	1731	A Harlot's Progress (the original paintings)	William Hogarth	Fire at Fonthill Abbey	1755	1732 engravings
Destroyed	1738	Strolling Actresses Dressing in a Barn	William Hogarth		Fire at Littleton House in December	1874	An engraving by the artist survives
Destroyed		Fresco of The Translation of the Holy House of Loreto	Gianbattista Tiepolo	In the Church of the Scalzi, Venice	Austrian shelling in World War I	1915
Destroyed	c. 1754	Frescoes glorifying the Soderini family	Gianbattista Tiepolo and Giandomenico Tiepolo	Villa Soderini, Nervesa della Battaglia, in the Veneto	Italo-Austrian engagement in World War I, June 15–19	1918
Destroyed		The Triumph of the Arts and Sciences ceiling fresco	Gianbattista Tiepolo	In the Palazzo Archinto, Milan	Bombardment in World War II	1939-45
Destroyed		Apollo and Phaethon ceiling fresco	Gianbattista Tiepolo	In the Palazzo Archinto, Milan	Bombardment in World War II	1939-45
Destroyed		Perseus and Andromeda ceiling fresco	Gianbattista Tiepolo	In the Palazzo Archinto, Milan	Bombardment in World War II	1939-45
Destroyed		Juno with Fortuna and Venus ceiling fresco	Gianbattista Tiepolo	In the Palazzo Archinto, Milan	Bombardment in World War II	1939-45
Destroyed		Nativity	Sir Joshua Reynolds		Fire at Belvoir Castle	1816
Destroyed		The Infant Jupiter	Sir Joshua Reynolds		Fire at Belvoir Castle	1816
Destroyed		General James Oglethorpe			Fire at Belvoir Castle	1816
Destroyed	1766	David Garrick leaning on a bust of Shakespeare	Gainsborough	Painted for the Stratford Shakespeare Jubilee	Fire at Stratford-upon-Avon Town Hall	1946
Destroyed	1787	The Woodman and his Dog in a Storm	Gainsborough		Fire at Exton Old Park	1810	A 1791 mezzotint by Pierre Simon exists
Destroyed		Cottage Children with an Ass	Gainsborough		Fire at Exton Old Park	1810	Survives in mezzotint
Destroyed		The Destruction of Niobe's Children	Richard Wilson	Formerly National Gallery, London	World War II	1944
Destroyed		Bust of the composer Gluck in marble	Jean-Antoine Houdon		Fire at the Paris Opera	1873	Terra cotta versions exist
Missing	1781	The Eidophusikon	Philip James de Loutherbourg
Missing	1793	Louis-Michel le Peletier, marquis de Saint-Fargeau on his Death Bed	Jacques-Louis David
19th century
Missing	1865	Lost Illusions	Charles Gleyre and his student Leon Dussart	Commissioned by William Thompson Walters			Lost Illusions is a painting by Charles Gleyre and his student Leon Dussart, commissioned by William Thompson Walters in 1865.
Destroyed	1806	Don Antonio de Porcel	Goya		Fire in the Jockey Club, Buenos Aires	1956
Missing	1808	A Vision of the Last Judgment	William Blake				Earlier versions and sketches survive, but the final version has not been seen since the cancellation of an 1810 exhibit it was to have been part of
Destroyed		Seated portrait of President Washington	Gilbert Stuart		Fire at the Library of Congress, December 24, 1851	1851
Destroyed		Seated portrait of President Adams	Gilbert Stuart		Fire at the Library of Congress, December 24, 1851	1851
Destroyed		Seated portrait of President Jefferson	Gilbert Stuart		Fire at the Library of Congress, December 24, 1851	1851
Destroyed		George Washington Seated, in Roman dress, marble sculpture	Canova		Fire in the North Carolina State House, Raleigh	1831	The artist's plaster model survives
Destroyed		The Dream of Love (Jupiter and Io)	Rembrandt Peale		Fire while on exhibition in New York prior to 1855, according to the artist	Before 1855
Destroyed		Musidora	Rembrandt Peale		Fire at a Philadelphia art gallery in 1850 or 1851	1850-51
Destroyed	1807–08	Winter	Caspar David Friedrich		Glaspalast (Munich) fire	1931
Destroyed	1818	The Farewell	Caspar David Friedrich		Glaspalast (Munich) fire	1931
Destroyed	c. 1820	The Harbor at Grifswald	Caspar David Friedrich		Glaspalast (Munich) fire	1931
Destroyed	1824	Autumn Landscape with Brush Collector	Caspar David Friedrich		Glaspalast (Munich) fire	1931
Destroyed	1825	Evening	Caspar David Friedrich		Glaspalast (Munich) fire	1931
Destroyed	1811	Mountain Chapel in the Mist	Caspar David Friedrich		Fire in the Friedrichshain Flakturm, following the capture of Berlin, May 1945	1945
Destroyed	1817–18	Monastery Graveyard in the Snow	Caspar David Friedrich		Fire in the Friedrichshain Flakturm, following the capture of Berlin, May 1945	1945
Destroyed	1824	High Mountain Region	Caspar David Friedrich		Fire in the Friedrichshain Flakturm, following the capture of Berlin, May 1945	1945
Destroyed	1830–35	Northern Lights	Caspar David Friedrich		Fire in the Friedrichshain Flakturm, following the capture of Berlin, May 1945	1945
Destroyed	1807	The Mouth of the Thames	Turner	World War II	1939-45
Destroyed	1830	Fish Market on the Sands	Turner	formerly owned by Billy Rose	Fire	1956
Missing	1850	Aeneas Relating his Story to Dido	Turner
Destroyed	1846	War and Peace	Sir Edwin Landseer		Thames flooding the basement of the Tate Gallery, January	1928
Missing	1840–46	Mississippi River Panorama	John Banvard	Promoted as a 'three-mile canvas', though it was only approximately half a mile (800 m) long. Banvard gave the panorama many showings, including one to Queen Victoria	It is thought to have been cut up into pieces towards the end of the 19th century	185-99
Destroyed	1849–50	Washington Crossing the Delaware (first version)	Emanuel Leutze		Air raid on Bremen	1942
Destroyed		Apotheosis of Napoleon I	Ingres	Ceiling painting for the Hôtel de Ville, Paris	Fire in the Paris Commune	1871
Destroyed	1830	The Storming of the Bastille	Paul Delaroche	Painted for the Hotel de Ville, Paris	Fire in the Paris Commune	1871
Destroyed	1826	Justinian Drafting his Laws	Eugène Delacroix	Painted for the Council of State, Paris	Fire in the Paris Commune	1871	An 1855 photograph survives
Destroyed	1852–54	Peace Consoles Mankind and Brings Abundance	Eugène Delacroix	Painted for the Hall of Peace at the Hotel de Ville, Paris	Fire in the Paris Commune	1871
Destroyed	1848	Murals of War and Peace	Théodore Chassériau	Painted for the Cour des Comptes, Palais of the Quai d'Orsay, Paris	Fire in the Paris Commune	1871	A fragment of Peace is preserved in the Louvre
Destroyed		The Jewish Captivity in Babylon	Jean-François Millet	Submitted for the Paris Salon, 1848	Painted over by the artist with a scene executed in Normandy	1870-71
Destroyed		The Stone Breakers	Courbet	World War II, while in transit from the Dresden Gallery	1939-45
Destroyed	1863	The Return from the Conference	Courbet		Destroyed by its owner due to its anticlerical content	1909
Destroyed	1864	Venus and Psyche	Courbet		Enemy air action, Berlin, World War II	1945
Destroyed	1882	Donkey Cart with Boy and Scheveningen Woman	Van Gogh	Formerly in Rotterdam	Fire	1940
Destroyed	1885	The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen with Pond and Figures	Van Gogh		Fire in Rotterdam during World War II	1939-45
Destroyed	1886	Windmill on Montmartre	Van Gogh		Fire	1967
Destroyed	1888	Still Life: Vase with Five Sunflowers	Van Gogh	Formerly in the collection of Koyata Yamamoto, Japan	American air raids on Ashiya District, August 5–6	1945
Destroyed	1888	The Painter on his Way to Work	Van Gogh	Formerly in the Kaiser-Friedrich Museum, Berlin	Fire in World War II	1939-45
Destroyed	1888	The Park at Arles with the Entrance Seen Through the Trees	Van Gogh		Fire in World War II	1939-45
Missing	1888	The Lovers: The Poet's Garden IV	Van Gogh		Declared degenerate and confiscated by the Nazis, Whereabouts unknown	1937
Destroyed		The New Jerusalem	George Inness		Partial collapse of Madison Square Garden	1880	Salvaged fragments survive, including Valley of the Olive Trees in the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore
Missing	1885	The Apparition	James Tissot		Lost		A mezzotint by the artist exists
Destroyed	1895	Portrait of French playwright Alfred Jarry	Henri Rousseau		Destroyed by the sitter, who disliked it
Destroyed		Head of Sir Henry Irving	John Singer Sargent		Destroyed by the sitter, who disliked it
Presumed Destroyed	c. 1899	Portrait of Thomas Eakins	William Merritt Chase		Presumed destroyed by the sitter
Missing	1886	Hen with Sapphire Pendant	Fabergé		Russian Revolution	1922
Missing	1888	Cherub with Chariot	Fabergé		Russian Revolution	1922
Missing	1889	Necessaire egg	Fabergé		Russian Revolution	1922
Missing	1896	Alexander III Portraits egg	Fabergé		Russian Revolution	1922
Missing	1898	'Mauve egg	Fabergé		Russian Revolution	1922
Missing	1899	Furor Teutonicus	Paja Jovanović	An over 20 square meter painting last seen at the Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts (where the painting was also known as Los Barbaros)	Lost sometime between 1911 and World War II	1911-39	A heliogravure copy and an oil canvas sketch survive at the Belgrade City Museum.

Various pieces designed by William Burges for his house, The Tower House, have been lost. These include a white jade tazza and a salt cellar, both made in 1875, a sideboard and a display cabinet (1875–76), a mounted orange and a pair of buffets (1877), a pair of mirrors (c.1878), a mounted shell and a dressing table (1879), bronze frogs (1880), and a bronze; "Fame" (1880–81).

Leonardo da Vinci, Battle of Anghiari

20th century

• The Empire Nephrite (1902), Royal Danish (1903) and Alexander III Commemorative (1909) Fabergé eggs.
• Musik II (1898), Schubert at the Piano (1899), Golden Apple Tree (1903), Procession of the Dead (1903), Klimt University of Vienna Ceiling Paintings: Medicine, Philosophy and Jurisprudence (1899–1907), Farm Garden with Crucifix (1911–12), Malcesine on Lake Garda (1913), Garden Path with Chickens (1916), Portrait of Wally (1916), The Girlfriends (c. 1916-17), Leda (1917), Gastein (1917), all by Gustav Klimt. Destroyed by a fire set by retreating German forces in 1945 at Schloss Immendorf, Austria.
• Tammany Hall at Night by John Sloan was destroyed by fire during transit. The artist later created a replica from photographs.
• Several paintings, sculptures, and furnishings from the RMS Titanic (1912) and the RMS Lusitania (1915).
• Two paintings by Claude Monet, including a major study of Water Lilies, were destroyed in a fire at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in April 1958.
• Diego Rivera's mural Man at the Crossroads (1933) was destroyed and removed in 1934 because its content (including a portrait of Lenin) offended Nelson Rockefeller, who had commissioned the work. Rivera later recreated the work as Man, Controller of the Universe in the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City.
• Joan Miró's large mural on panels, The Reaper, (1937) depicting a Catalan peasant, was created for the Spanish Republican pavilion of the 1937 Paris Exposition. Afterwards it was sent to Valencia and probably destroyed.
• The Seven Lively Arts (1944), a series of seven paintings painted by Spanish artist Salvador Dali for Billy Rose, was destroyed by fire in 1956 and is known only from photographs.
• Over 90% of the public works of German sculptor Arno Breker were destroyed by the allies after World War II.
• Works of Arshile Gorky were lost when his studio burned in 1946. In addition, 15 abstract paintings and drawings by Gorky were lost in a 1962 plane crash.
• A painting by Edward Hopper, "Corn Belt City" from 1947, was destroyed in a Park Avenue apartment fire in 1975.
• Graham Sutherland's portrait of Winston Churchill (1954) was deliberately destroyed by Lady Churchill because she did not like it.
• Numerous works of the Corridart exhibition were removed and impounded or destroyed on the orders of Montreal mayor Jean Drapeau in 1976, creating a scandal.
• Some 20 works were created on camera and then deliberately destroyed by Pablo Picasso for the documentary Le Mystère Picasso (The Mystery of Picasso, 1956)
• On July 8, 1978, a rough fire caused by a cigarette or due an electrical failure, destroyed 90% of the artworks of the Museu de Arte Moderna, in Rio de Janeiro - including artworks from Pablo Picasso ("Cubist Head" and "Portrait of Dora Maar"), Miró, Salvador Dalí, Max Ernst, René Magritte, Ivan Serpa, Manabu Mabe e others - and all artworks showed in a big retrospective of artist Joaquin Torres García.
• On January 30, 1979, a Varig 707 freighter, registration PP-VLU, disappeared over the Pacific Ocean thirty minutes after departing Tokyo, Japan. The captain had previously been involved in another major accident, that of Varig Flight 820 in 1973. No wreckage or remains were ever located. The aircraft was carrying 153 paintings by the Japanese Brazilian artist Manabu Mabe, worth approximately $1.24 million US.
• "Study after Velázquez III" (1950), Francis Bacon. Third in a series of portraits after Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X, 1650. All three were thought destroyed by the artist until the first two surfaced 1999.
• "Untitled Wall Relief", by Craig Kauffman (1967), an acrylic lacquer on Plexiglas piece, fell off the wall and shattered on July 16, 2006 at the Pompidou Center of Paris
• Untitled piece by Peter Alexander (1971), an 8 ft. x 5 in. molded polyester resin work, fell and shattered in April 2006 at the Pompidou Center of Paris
• The Chartist Mural (1978), a 115 by 12 feet mosaic mural by Kenneth Budd in Newport, Wales. Deliberately destroyed in October 2013 to make way for new development.
• The "Pearl Monument" (1982), which stood in the centre of the Pearl Roundabout, Bahrain. It was torn down by the Bahraini government on March 18, 2011 because it had been a focal point for protesters.
• Anish Kapoor's wood and cement sculpture "Hole and Vessel" (1984) was discovered missing from its storage unit in 2004.
• Richard Serra's 38-ton metal sculpture "Equal-Parallel/Guernica-Bengasi" (1986), formerly displayed at the Reina Sofia museum, could not be located in 2006.
• The "Goddess of Democracy" (1989) by students of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, was destroyed by The People's Liberation Army during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
• Rachel Whiteread's enormous sculpture "House" (1993) was destroyed by the London Borough of Tower Hamlets council on January 11, 1994.
• Pablo Picasso's painting The Painter was lost aboard Swissair Flight 111 when it crashed into the waters off Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada on September 2, 1998.[1]
• Richard Serra's Tilted Arc (1981) was dismantled and removed in 1989.

21st century

• Hélio Oiticica's almost whole collection (estimated at 2,000 works, or approximately 90%) was destroyed on October 16, 2009 in a fire at his brother's house.
• Dan Narita's painting Seeds was lost after last exhibited at The Mall Galleries as part of the Threadneedle Prize Exhibition in London 2012.

See also

• Beeldenstorm
• List of missing treasure
• Lost film
• Lost work
• Nazi plunder
• Vrouw Maria
• List of destroyed heritage

References

• Lost Treasures of Europe: 427 Photographs Henry Adams LaFarge (ed.), Pantheon (1946).
• The Lost Museum: Glimpses of Vanished Originals Robert Adams, Viking Press (1980). ISBN 0-670-44107-4
• Missing Masterpieces: Lost Works of Art, 1450–1900 Dr. Gert-Rudolf Flick, Merrell (2003). ISBN 1-85894-197-0
• The eloquent and thorough post-war report, Works of Art in Italy: Losses and Survivals in the War, compiled by the British Committee on the Preservation and Restitution of Works of Art, London 1946, is an indispensable guide to the damage inflicted by wartime action throughout Italy between 1943 and 1945. It is posted online and also references other wartime articles on damage to works of art in Italy.
• The authoritative source in English for paintings destroyed in the Friedrichshain Flakturm, Berlin, 1945 remains Christopher Norris, "The Disaster at Flakturm Friedrichshain; a Chronicle and List of Paintings", The Burlington Magazine, December 1952, Vol. XCIV, Number 597.
• Crook, J. Mordaunt (2012). William Burges and the High Victorian Dream. London: Frances Lincoln. ISBN 978-0-711233-492. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)

Further reading

• Gamboni, Dario (1997). The Destruction of Art: Iconoclasm and Vandalism since the French Revolution. Reaktion Books. ISBN 978-1-86189-316-1.
• Lambourne, Nicola (2001). War Damage in Western Europe: The Destruction of Historic Monuments During the Second World War. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 0-7486-1285-8.
• Simpson, Elizabeth (1997). The Spoils of War--World War II and Its Aftermath: The Loss, Reappearance, and Recovery of Cultural Property. Harry N. Abrams, Inc., and The Bard Graduate Center. ISBN 0-8109-4469-3.
• Strong, Roy (1990). Lost Treasures of Britain: Five Centuries of Creation and Destruction. Viking. ISBN 978-0-670-83383-2.

External links

• The Story of Leonardo Da Vinci's Horse
• "The Art Lost by Citigroup on 9/11" by Suzanne F. W. Lemakis
• "Public Art at the World Trade Center" by Saul Wenegrat
• Lost Art in the Towers
• 9/11 Attacks Destroy Cultural and Historical Artifacts
• http://worldtradecenterart.blogspot.com/
• The Britart fire
• Template:MuseumsWiki
• Lost Art. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Library Collections. In the Library's Photographs and Clippings Files.
• Lost Art — Masterpieces Destroyed in War in Flickr
• Destroyed Works of Art and Architecture Group in Flickr