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| Destroyed || 1933 || ''[[Man at the Crossroads]]'' mural || [[Diego Rivera]] || [[Nelson Rockefeller]] commissioned the work || Rockefeller was offended (it included a portrait of [[Lenin]]) and had it removed || 1934 || Rivera later recreated the work as ''[[Man, Controller of the Universe]]'' in the [[Palacio de Bellas Artes]] in [[Mexico City]]. |
| Destroyed || 1933 || ''[[Man at the Crossroads]]'' mural || [[Diego Rivera]] || [[Nelson Rockefeller]] commissioned the work || Rockefeller was offended (it included a portrait of [[Lenin]]) and had it removed || 1934 || Rivera later recreated the work as ''[[Man, Controller of the Universe]]'' in the [[Palacio de Bellas Artes]] in [[Mexico City]]. |
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| Missing || ''1936'' || ''The Trench'' || [[Otto Dix]] || Exhibited at the 1937 Degenerate Art Exhibit || [[Nazi Plunder]] || 1937 |
| Missing || ''1936'' || ''The Trench'' || [[Otto Dix]] || Exhibited at the 1937 Degenerate Art Exhibit || [[Nazi Plunder]] || 1937<ref>Jones, Jonathan.The first world war in German art: Otto Dix's first-hand visions of horror. [[The Guardian]]. 14 May 2014. http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/may/14/first-world-war-german-art-otto-dix?CMP=fb_gu. Accessed 14 May 2014</ ref> || |
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| Presumed Destroyed || 1937 || ''[[The Reaper (Miró painting)|The Reaper]]'' a large mural on panels depicting a Catalan peasant || [[Joan Miró]] || Created for the Spanish Republican pavilion of the [[Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne|1937 Paris Exposition]] || Subsequently sent to Valencia, where it was presumably destroyed || 1937 || |
| Presumed Destroyed || 1937 || ''[[The Reaper (Miró painting)|The Reaper]]'' a large mural on panels depicting a Catalan peasant || [[Joan Miró]] || Created for the Spanish Republican pavilion of the [[Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne|1937 Paris Exposition]] || Subsequently sent to Valencia, where it was presumably destroyed || 1937 || |
Revision as of 17:09, 14 May 2014
For lost literary works, see Lost work. For films, see List of lost films.
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.
The US FBI maintains a list of Top Ten Art Crimes; a 2006 book by Simon Houpt[1] and several other media outlets have profiled the most significant outstanding losses.
- Missing works with the highest estimated market values
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Portrait of a young man by Raphael
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Nativity with San Lorenzo and San Francesco by Caravaggio Est. (2006) $20,000,000 USD[1]
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Landscape with an Obelisk by Govert Flinck Est. (2006) priceless[1]
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Alexander III Commemorative egg by Fabergé Est. $20–30,000,000
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Royal Danish egg (Danish Jubilee egg) by Fabergé Est. $20–30,000,000
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Vase with Lychnis by Van Gogh
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Chez Tortoni by Édouard Manet Est. (2006) priceless[1]
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White Duck by Jean-Baptiste Oudry Est. (2006) $8,800,000 USD[1]
Chronology of notable loss events
Research and recovery efforts
The Art Loss Register is a computerized international database which captures information about lost and stolen art, antiques and collectables. It is operated by a commercial company based in London.
A number of search and recovery efforts were created in response to major loss events, notably:
- Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives program ("Monuments Men"), 1943-1946
- Bureau of Revindication and Damages (Poland), operated from 1945 to 1951
- Bureau of the Government Representative for Polish Cultural Heritage Abroad, 1991-
List of notable lost artworks
See also List of famous stolen paintings
Status | Creation date(s) (est.) | Known as | Creator | Commission/provenance note | Loss event | Year lost (est.) | Surviving copies and documentation | |||
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Destroyed | -475-25 BCE | Sack of Troy | Polygnotus | In the Lesche of Knidos at Delphi | Pausanias in Description of Greece, Chapter X |
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Destroyed | -00475-25 BCE | Odysseus in the Underworld | Polygnotus | In the Lesche of Knidos at Delphi | Pausanias in Description of Greece, Chapter X | |||||
Destroyed | -00450-40 BCE | Lemnian Athena, a bronze | Phidias | Housed in the Parthenon | ||||||
Missing | -00447- BCE | Athena Parthenos | Phidias | Originally housed in the Parthenon | 900-99 | |||||
Destroyed | -00435 BCE | Statue of Zeus at Olympia | Phidias | Probably Lauseion fire | 425-472 | |||||
Destroyed | -0399-00 BCE | Aphrodite of Knidos, a marble sculpture | Praxiteles | |||||||
Destroyed | -0399-00 BCE | Seated Hercules, a colossal bronze | 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 | Fourth Crusade, melted down by invaders | 1204 | ||||
Missing | -0399-00 BCE | Eros Stringing the Bow bronze | Lysippus | Various copies exist | ||||||
Missing | -0399-00 BCE | Agias bronze | Lysippus | Marble copy found and preserved in Delphi | ||||||
Missing | -0340-30 BCE | Oil Pourer bronze | Lysippus, circle of | Roman marble copies | ||||||
Missing | -0340-30 BCE | Hercules bronze | Lysippus | Marble copy by Glykon | ||||||
Missing | -0330 BCE | Apoxyomenos bronze | Lysippus | Roman general Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa installed Lysippos's masterpiece in the Baths of Agrippa that he erected in Rome, around 20 BCE | Description in Pliny the Elder's Natural History, multiple marble copies | |||||
Missing | -0356-23 BCE | Alexander the Great bronzes | Lysippus | |||||||
Destroyed | -292-80 BCE | Colossus of Rhodes | Chares of Lindos | Rhodes earthquake | 226 BCE | |||||
Missing | 60-84 | Hodegetria | Saint Luke | 1261- | ||||||
Destroyed | 193-526 | Regisole | Erected at Ravenna, moved to Pavia in the Middle Ages, it stood before the cathedral | Jacobin Club in Pavia vandalism (destroyed as a symbol of monarchy) | 1796 | |||||
Missing | 400-525 | Image of Edessa (Mandylion) | Sack of Constantinople French Revolution |
1204 1789-99 |
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Destroyed | 425 | Portraits of western and eastern imperial family members mosaic | commissioned by Galla Placidia in the Church of San Giovanni Evangelista, Ravenna | 1747 | ||||||
Destroyed | 425 | Portrait of the bishop of Ravenna mosaic | commissioned by Galla Placidia in the Church of San Giovanni Evangelista, Ravenna | 1747 | ||||||
Destroyed | 500-99 | Buddhas of Bamyan | Taliban iconoclasm (purported) | 2001 | ||||||
Presumed Destroyed | 500-99 | Camuliana | Byzantine Iconoclasm | 727-842 | ||||||
Destroyed | 600 | Icon of Christ Chalkites | Iconoclasm of Leo III | 726-30 | ||||||
Destroyed | 1070-79 | Bayeux Tapestry, final portion | Deliberately removed at some point | |||||||
Destroyed | 1277–85 | The facade mosaics and the fresco cycles, with stories from the New and Old Testament | Cavallini, Pietro | In the Basilica di San Paolo fuori le Mura in Rome | Fire | 1823 | ||||
Destroyed | 1305-13 | Navicella mosaic | Giotto | Outside Old Saint Peter's Basilica | Moved and extensively reworked in the 17th century | 1600-1675 | ||||
Missing | 1308 | Coronation of the Virgin panel of the Maestà altarpiece | Duccio | Dismantled | 1711 | |||||
Missing | 1308 | Virgin of the Assumption panel of the Maestà altarpiece | Duccio | Dismantled | 1711 | |||||
Missing | 1308 | Ascension of Christ panel of the Maestà altarpiece | Duccio | Dismantled | 1711 | |||||
Missing | 1308 | Christ in Majesty panel of the Maestà altarpiece | Duccio | Dismantled | 1711 | |||||
Missing | 1328-37 | Commune of Florence allegorical fresco | Giotto | painted for the Palazzo del Podestà, now the Bargello, Florence | Described by Giorgio Vasari as a seated judge with sceptre, flanked by figures of Fortitude, Prudence, Justice and Temperance | |||||
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 | Lorenzetti, Ambrogio | In the Church of Santa Margherita, Cortona | Destroyed | ~1650 | |||||
Missing | 1327-44 | Laura (Laura de Noves) | Martini, Simone | Portrait is the subject a sonnet by Petrarch | ||||||
Destroyed | Virgin Enthroned with Saints and Angels (1402) | Monaco, Lorenzo | Friedrichshain flak tower fire | 1945 | ||||||
Missing | Joshua terra cotta | Donatello | For the north tribune of the Duomo of Florence (c. 1410) | Disappeared in the 18th century | 1700-1799 | |||||
Missing | 1428 | 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 | 1427-28 | Frescoes | da Fabriano, Gentile Pisanello |
In the Basilica of Saint John Lateran, Rome | Destroyed during reconstruction | 1647 | ||||
Destroyed | 1425-30 | Mosaic of Saint Peter Blessing | Paolo Uccello | On the façade of the Basilica of San Marco, Venice | Replaced with mosaics by Gaetano | 1617-18 | ||||
Destroyed | 1432 | Illustrious Men fresco cycle | da Panicale, Masolino Uccello |
For the Palace of Cardinal Orsini in Rome | A watercolor copy by Leonardo da Besozzo survives | |||||
Destroyed | 1425 | Sagra del Carmine monochrome fresco | Masaccio | For the cloister of Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence | Destroyed | 1600 | ||||
Destroyed | Confirmation of the Rules of the Carmelites fresco | Lippi, Filippo | In the cloister of Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence | Fire | 1771 | A fragment uncovered in 1860 survives in place | ||||
Missing | 1423 | Painted Crucifix | Fra Angelico | for the Dominican church of Santa Maria Novella, Florence | ||||||
Destroyed | 1456 | Last Judgment | Fra Angelico, school of | Friedrichshain flak tower fire | 1945 | |||||
Destroyed | 1440-57 | Flagellation fresco | del Castagno, Andrea | In the cloister of the Basilica of Santa Croce, Florence | Destroyed in the 17th century | 1600-1699 | ||||
Destroyed | 1450–52 | Life of the Virgin frescoes | Veneziano, Domenico del Castagno, Andrea |
In the church of Sant' Egidio (Santa Maria Nuova), Florence | Destroyed | 1594 | ||||
Destroyed | 1449-56 | Life of Santa Rosa fresco cycle | Gozzoli, Benozzo | For the church of Santa Rosa, Viterbo | 1632 renovations to the church | 1632 | Autograph and other drawings and a contemporary description survive | |||
Destroyed | 1450-76 | Scenes from the life of Saint Nicholas altarpiece | da Messina, Antonello | For the Confraternity of San Nicolò della Montagna in Messina, seen by Cavalcaselle in 1871 | Destroyed in the Messina earthquake | 1908 | ||||
Destroyed | 1496 | Virgin and Child in Glory with Saints John the Evangelist, Francis, Jerome and John the Baptist | Ghirlandaio, Domenico | Friedrichshain flak tower fire | 1945 | |||||
Destroyed | 1470-92 | Several original paintings on "pagan" subjects | Botticelli | Bonfire of the Vanities | ||||||
Destroyed | 1478 | Piero di Cosimo de' Medici | Botticelli | Formerly Museo Civico Gaetano Filangieri, Naples | Destroyed in World War II | 1939-45 | Photographs survive | |||
Destroyed | 1478- | Frescoes depicting the criminal conspirators of the Pazzi Conspiracy against the Medici | Botticelli | Painted either in the Bargello or the Dogana in Florence | Removed at the instigation of Pope Alexander VI after the fall of the Medici | 1494 | ||||
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 | 1450-57 | Frescoes of the Lives of Saint James and Saint Christopher | Andrea Mantegna | for the Ovetari Chapel of the Church of the Eremitani, Padua | Destroyed in the Allied bombing of Padua, March 11 | 1944 | Frescoes of the Assumption and Body of Saint Christopher detached in 1880 survive, as do photographs | |||
Destroyed | 1457–60 | Lamentation of the People over the Dead Gattamelata | Andrea Mantegna | A fresco in the Palazzo Gattamelata, Padua | Fire on November 5 | 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 | Fresco, Destruction of Troy | Lorenzo Costa | For the loggia of the Bentivoglio Palace, Bologna | Destroyed with the palace by a mob | 1507 | Fragment survives in the Pinacoteca Nazionale | ||||
Destroyed | The Court of Pan | Luca Signorelli | Friedrichshain flak tower fire | 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 | Bombardment of Brussels | 1695 | Tapestries executed c. 1450 copying the artist's original designs survive | |||
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 | ||||
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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 | Friedrichshain flak tower fire | 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 flak tower fire | 1945 | |||||
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 | ||||
Missing | 1513-14 | Portrait of a Young Man (Raphael) | Raphael | Nazi plunder | 1939 | |||||
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 | c. 1529 | Portrait of an Architect (Self-Portrait?) | Wolf Huber | Fire at the Musée de Beaux Arts, Strasbourg, August 13, 1947 (one of 30 paintings destroyed) | 1947 | |||||
Destroyed | Cardinal Albrecht of Brandenburg, Archbishop of Mainz | Cranach the Elder | Friedrichshain flak tower fire | 1945 | ||||||
Destroyed | Virgin and Child with Four Female Saints | Cranach the Elder | Friedrichshain flak tower fire | 1945 | ||||||
Destroyed | Madonna and Child with Infant Saint John | Cranach the Elder | Friedrichshain flak tower fire | 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 | Doge's Palace fire | 1577 | ||||||
Destroyed | Battle of Cadore | Titian | Doge's Palace fire | 1577 | ||||||
Destroyed | Doge Gritti Praying to the Virgin | Titian | Doge's Palace fire | 1577 | ||||||
Destroyed | Coronation of Frederick Barbarossa | Tintoretto | Doge's Palace fire | 1577 | ||||||
Destroyed | Excommunication of Barbarossa | Tintoretto | Doge's Palace fire | 1577 | ||||||
Destroyed | Last Judgment | Tintoretto | Doge's Palace fire | 1577 | ||||||
Destroyed | Homage of Frederick Barbarossa | Paolo Veronese | Doge's Palace fire | 1577 | ||||||
Destroyed | Works | Gentile da Fabriano | Doge's Palace fire | 1577 | ||||||
Destroyed | Works | Pisanello | Doge's Palace fire | 1577 | ||||||
Destroyed | Pope Alexander III in the Church of St. Marks | Carpaccio | Doge's Palace fire | 1577 | ||||||
Destroyed | Meeting of the Pope and the Doge at Ancona | Carpaccio | Doge's Palace fire | 1577 | ||||||
Destroyed | Otho Promising to Mediate Between Venice and Barbarossa | Alvise Vivarini | Doge's Palace fire | 1577 | ||||||
Destroyed | Paradise | Guariento | Doge's Palace fire | 1577 | ||||||
Destroyed | Battle of Salvore | Gentile Bellini | Doge's Palace fire | 1577 | ||||||
Destroyed | Presentation of the White Candle to the Pope | Gentile Bellini | Doge's Palace fire | 1577 | ||||||
Destroyed | Presentation of the Eight Standards and Trumpets to the Doge | Giovanni Bellini | Doge's Palace fire | 1577 | ||||||
Missing | Portrait of Isabella d'Este in Red | Titian | A copy by Rubens is in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna | |||||||
Destroyed | Death of St Peter Martyr for the Chapel of the Rosary, Santi Giovanni e Paolo, Venice | Titian | Fire | 1867 | Copies and engravings survive | |||||
Destroyed | Double Portrait of Emperor Charles V and his wife Isabella of Portugal | Titian | Royal Alcázar of Madrid fire | 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 | Royal Alcázar of Madrid fire | 1734 | ||||||
Destroyed | Paintings of The Twelve Caesars | Titian | Royal Alcázar of Madrid fire | 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 | Friedrichshain flak tower fire | 1945 | ||||
Destroyed | c. 1580 | Saturn Helps Religion to Overcome Heresy | Veronese | Painted for the Fondaco dei Tedeschi, Venice | Friedrichshain flak tower fire | 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 | ||||||
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Missing | A Christus head | 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 | Belvoir Castle fire | 1816 | |||||
Destroyed | 1658 | Queen Esther Approaching the Palace of Ahasuerus | Claude Lorrain | Fonthill Abbey fire | 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 | Bombardment of Brussels | 1695 | |||||
Destroyed | 1610 | Virgin Adorned with Flowers by Saint Anne | Rubens | Painted for the Church of the Carmelite Friars, Brussels | Bombardment of Brussels | 1695 | ||||
Destroyed | 1613 | Saint Job Triptych | Rubens | Painted for Saint Nicholas Church, Brussels | Bombardment of Brussels | 1695 | ||||
Destroyed | Cambyses Appointing Otanes Judge | Rubens | Decoration for the Magistrates' Hall, Brussels | Bombardment of Brussels | 1695 | |||||
Destroyed | Judgment of Solomon | Rubens | Decoration for the Magistrates' Hall, Brussels | Bombardment of Brussels | 1695 | |||||
Destroyed | Last Judgment | Rubens | Decoration for the Magistrates' Hall, Brussels | Bombardment of Brussels | 1695 | |||||
Destroyed | c. 1615 | Neptune and Amphitrite | Rubens | Friedrichshain flak tower fire | 1945 | |||||
Destroyed | Nativity | Rubens | Coudenberg Palace fire | 1731 | ||||||
Destroyed | Adoration of the Magi | Rubens | Coudenberg Palace fire | 1731 | ||||||
Destroyed | Pentecost | Rubens | Coudenberg Palace 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 | Friedrichshain flak tower fire | 1945 | |||||
Missing | Equestrian Portrait of the Archduke Albert | Rubens | ||||||||
Destroyed | Equestrian Portrait of Philip IV of Spain | Rubens | Royal Alcázar of Madrid fire | 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 | Friedrichshain flak tower fire | 1945 | ||||||
Destroyed | Allegories of Sight and Smell | Jan Brueghel the Elder and other artists | Coudenberg Palace fire | 1731 | ||||||
Destroyed | Allegories of Hearing, Taste and Touch | Jan Brueghel the Elder and other artists | Coudenberg Palace fire | 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 | Friedrichshain flak tower fire | 1945 | ||||||
Destroyed | Lamentation over Christ | Van Dyck | Friedrichshain flak tower fire | 1945 | ||||||
Destroyed | Nymphs Surprised by Satyrs | Van Dyck | Friedrichshain flak tower fire | 1945 | ||||||
Destroyed | Saints John the Baptist and John the Evangelist | Van Dyck | Friedrichshain flak tower fire | 1945 | ||||||
Destroyed | Adoration of the Shepherds (Birth of Christ) | Gerrit van Honthorst | Uffizi car bombing | 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 | Executed for the Stadtholder Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange | Went missing in the 18th century | 1700-99 | ||||
Destroyed | Bentheim Castle with Christ and Disciples on the Road to Emmaus | Jacob van Ruisdael | Museum Boymans fire | 1864 | ||||||
Destroyed | Large family portrait | Carel Fabritius | Museum Boymans fire | 1864 | ||||||
Destroyed | Sleeping Man | Aelbert Cuyp | Museum Boymans fire | 1864 | ||||||
Destroyed | Tobias Healing His Father | Jan Steen | Museum Boymans fire | 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 | Friedrichshain flak tower fire | 1945 | |||||
Destroyed | 1605 | Christ on the Mount of Olives | Caravaggio | From the collection of Vincenzo Giustiniani | Friedrichshain flak tower fire | 1945 | ||||
Destroyed | c. 1597 | Fillide Melandroni | Caravaggio | Friedrichshain flak tower fire | 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 | Royal Alcázar of Madrid fire | 1734 | ||||
Destroyed | 1650–52 | Bathsheba | Artemisia Gentileschi | Fire at Gosford House, Scotland | 1940 | |||||
Destroyed | La Buonavventura | Bartolomeo Manfredi | Uffizi car bombing | 1993 | ||||||
Destroyed | Ciclo Vito | Bartolomeo Manfredi | Uffizi car bombing | 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 | Royal Alcázar of Madrid fire | 1734 | |||||
Destroyed | Venus and Adonis | Velasquez | Royal Alcázar of Madrid fire | 1734 | ||||||
Destroyed | Cupid and Psyche | Velasquez | Royal Alcázar of Madrid fire | 1734 | ||||||
Destroyed | Apollo and Marsyas | Velasquez | Royal Alcázar of Madrid fire | 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 | Friedrichshain flak tower fire | 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 | Luca 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 | Grocers' Hall Fire, London, 22 September | 1965 | ||||||
18th century | ||||||||||
Destroyed | The White Duck | Jean-Baptiste Oudry | Houghton Hall theft | 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 | Friedrichshain flak tower fire | 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 survive | ||||
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 | 1731 | The Triumph of the Arts and Sciences ceiling fresco | Gianbattista Tiepolo | Palazzo Archinto, Milan bombing | 1943 | |||||
Destroyed | 1731 | Apollo and Phaethon ceiling fresco | Gianbattista Tiepolo | Palazzo Archinto, Milan bombing | 1943 | |||||
Destroyed | 1731 | Perseus and Andromeda ceiling fresco | Gianbattista Tiepolo | Palazzo Archinto, Milan bombing | 1943 | |||||
Destroyed | 1731 | Juno with Fortuna and Venus ceiling fresco | Gianbattista Tiepolo | Palazzo Archinto, Milan bombing | 1943 | |||||
Destroyed | 1761 | Triumph of Hercules ceiling fresco | Gianbattista Tiepolo | Painted for the principal salon of the Palazzo Canossa, Verona | Reduced to fragments by bombing in the Second World War | 1945 | ||||
Destroyed | Nativity | Sir Joshua Reynolds | Belvoir Castle fire | 1816 | ||||||
Destroyed | The Infant Jupiter | Sir Joshua Reynolds | Belvoir Castle fire | 1816 | ||||||
Destroyed | General James Oglethorpe | Belvoir Castle fire | 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 | Numerous colonial portraits | John Singleton Copley | Formerly belonging to Peter Wainwright | Great Boston Fire of 1872 | 1872 | |||||
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 | ||||||||||
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 | Library of Congress fire | 1851 | ||||||
Destroyed | Seated portrait of President Adams | Gilbert Stuart | Library of Congress fire | 1851 | ||||||
Destroyed | Seated portrait of President Jefferson | Gilbert Stuart | Library of Congress fire | 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 | Friedrichshain flak tower fire | 1945 | |||||
Destroyed | 1817–18 | Monastery Graveyard in the Snow | Caspar David Friedrich | Friedrichshain flak tower fire | 1945 | |||||
Destroyed | 1824 | High Mountain Region | Caspar David Friedrich | Friedrichshain flak tower fire | 1945 | |||||
Destroyed | 1830–35 | Northern Lights | Caspar David Friedrich | Friedrichshain flak tower fire | 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 | Cut into pieces | 1850-99 | |||||
Destroyed | 1849–50 | Washington Crossing the Delaware (first version) | Emanuel Leutze | Air raid on Bremen | 1942 | |||||
Destroyed | Apotheosis of Napoleon I ceiling painting | Ingres | Hôtel de Ville fire | 1871 | ||||||
Destroyed | 1830 | The Storming of the Bastille | Delaroche, Paul | Hôtel de Ville fire | 1871 | |||||
Destroyed | 1826 | Justinian Drafting his Laws | Delacroix, Eugène | 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 | Delacroix, Eugène | Hôtel de Ville fire | 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 | 1856 | Napoleon III | Winterhalter, Franz Xaver | Tuileries Palace fire | 1871 | Models by the artist and copies exist | ||||
Destroyed | 1856 | Empress Eugénie | Winterhalter, Franz Xaver | Tuileries Palace fire | 1871 | Models by the artist and copies exist | ||||
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 | |||||
Missing | 1873-75 | View of Auvers-sur-Oise | Cezanne | Ashmolean Museum theft | 1999 | ![]() | ||||
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 | |||||
Missing | 1885 | The Apparition | James Tissot | Lost | A mezzotint by the artist exists | |||||
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 | |||||
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 | 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.[2] | |||
20th century | ||||||||||
Missing | 1902 | Empire Nephrite Egg | Fabergé | Russian Revolution | 1922 | |||||
Missing | 1903 | Royal Danish Egg | Fabergé | Russian Revolution | 1922 | |||||
Missing | 1909 | Alexander III Commemorative Egg | Fabergé | Russian Revolution | 1922 | |||||
Destroyed | 1898 | Musik II | Gustav Klimt | Schloss Immendorf fire | 1945 | |||||
Destroyed | 1899 | Schubert at the Piano | Gustav Klimt | Schloss Immendorf fire | 1945 | |||||
Destroyed | 1903 | Golden Apple Tree | Gustav Klimt | Schloss Immendorf fire | 1945 | |||||
Destroyed | 1903 | Procession of the Dead | Gustav Klimt | Schloss Immendorf fire | 1945 | |||||
Destroyed | 1899–1907 | Medicine (Klimt University of Vienna Ceiling Paintings) | Gustav Klimt | Schloss Immendorf fire | 1945 | |||||
Destroyed | 1899–1907 | Philosophy (Klimt University of Vienna Ceiling Paintings) | Gustav Klimt | Schloss Immendorf fire | 1945 | |||||
Destroyed | 1899–1907 | Jurisprudence (Klimt University of Vienna Ceiling Paintings) | Gustav Klimt | Schloss Immendorf fire | 1945 | |||||
Destroyed | 1911–12 | Farm Garden with Crucifix | Gustav Klimt | Schloss Immendorf fire | 1945 | |||||
Destroyed | 1913 | Malcesine on Lake Garda | Gustav Klimt | Schloss Immendorf fire | 1945 | |||||
Destroyed | 1916 | Garden Path with Chickens | Gustav Klimt | Schloss Immendorf fire | 1945 | |||||
Destroyed | 1916 | Portrait of Wally | Gustav Klimt | Schloss Immendorf fire | 1945 | |||||
Destroyed | c. 1916-17 | The Girlfriends | Gustav Klimt | Schloss Immendorf fire | 1945 | |||||
Destroyed | 1917 | Leda | Gustav Klimt | Schloss Immendorf fire | 1945 | |||||
Destroyed | 1917 | Gastein | Gustav Klimt | Schloss Immendorf fire | 1945 | |||||
Destroyed | Tammany Hall at Night | John Sloan | Fire, during transit | The artist later created a replica from photographs | ||||||
Destroyed | A major study of Water Lilies (and one other painting) | Claude Monet | Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) fire | 1958 | ||||||
Destroyed | 1933 | Man at the Crossroads mural | Diego Rivera | Nelson Rockefeller commissioned the work | Rockefeller was offended (it included a portrait of Lenin) and had it removed | 1934 | Rivera later recreated the work as Man, Controller of the Universe in the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City. | |||
Missing | 1936 | The Trench | Otto Dix | Exhibited at the 1937 Degenerate Art Exhibit | Nazi Plunder | 1937Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page).
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Destroyed | 1971 | Untitled piece, molded polyester resin work | Peter Alexander | Fell and shattered at the Pompidou Center of Paris in April 2006 | 2006 | [3] | ||||
Destroyed | 1971 | World Trade Center Stabile a 25' red steel sculpture | Alexander Calder | World Trade Center Collapse | 2001 | |||||
Destroyed | 1973 | The World Trade Center Tapestry a 20' x 35' tapestry | Joan Miró | Hung in the South Tower Lobby | World Trade Center Collapse | 2001 | ||||
Destroyed | 1971–72 or 1974-76 | One painting from The Entablature Series | Roy Lichtenstein | World Trade Center Collapse | 2001 | |||||
Destroyed | 1978 | The Chartist Mural, a 115 by 12 feet mosaic mural in Newport, Wales | Kenneth Budd | Deliberately destroyed in October to make way for new development[4] | 2013 | |||||
Presumed Destroyed | 1982 | The Pearl Monument, which stood in the center of the Pearl Roundabout, Bahrain | It was torn down by the Bahraini government on 18 March because it had been a focal point for protesters | 2011 | ||||||
Missing | 1984 | Hole and Vessel wood and cement sculpture | Anish Kapoor | Discovered missing from its storage unit | 2004 | |||||
Missing | 1986 | Equal-Parallel/Guernica-Bengasi a 38-ton metal sculpture | Richard Serra | Formerly displayed at the Reina Sofia museum | Could not be located in 2006[5][6] | 2006 | ||||
Destroyed | 1989 | Goddess of Democracy | Students of the Central Academy of Fine Arts | Destroyed by The People's Liberation Army during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 | 1989 | |||||
Destroyed | 1993 | "House" an enormous temporary sculpture | Rachel Whiteread | Removed by London Borough of Tower Hamlets council on 11 January | 1994 | |||||
Destroyed | The Painter | Pablo Picasso | Swissair Flight 111 Plane Crash | 1998 | ||||||
Destroyed | 1995 | Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963–1995 ("The Tent") | Tracey Emin | Momart fire | 2004 | |||||
Missing | 1981 | Tilted Arc | Richard Serra | Dismantled and removed | 1989 | |||||
21st century | ||||||||||
Missing | Seeds | Dan Narita | Exhibited at The Mall Galleries as part of the Threadneedle Prize Exhibition in London 2012 | Lost after the exhibit | 2012 |
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List of notable finds
Year found | Year lost (est.) | Creation date(s) (est.) | Known as | Creator | Loss event |
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1999 | 1953 | 1950-53 | Study after Velázquez I | Francis Bacon | Thought destroyed by the artist[7] |
1999 | 1953 | 1950-53 | Study after Velázquez II | Francis Bacon | Thought destroyed by the artist[7] |
2008 | 1750-1800 | 1595 | Francesco St Jerome | Palma Giovane | Unknown |
2010 | 2000 | 1882 | Beach in Pourville | Monet | National Museum, Poznań theft |
2012 | 1695 | 1634 | Magistrate of Brussels oil sketch | Van Dyck | Overpainting |
2012 | 1922 | 1887 | Third Imperial Egg | Fabergé | Russian Revolution |
2014[8] | 1970 | 1889 | Fruits on a table or still life with a small dog | Gaugin | Terrence Kennedy residence, London, theft |
See also
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References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Houpt, Simon (2006). Museum of the Missing: The High Stakes of Art Crime. Key Porter Books.
- ^ Djordjevic, Marija (13 September 2009). "Čileanski muzej krije odgovore". Retrieved 21 October 2013.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
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was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "The destruction of the Newport Chartist Mural is a needless and casual act of cultural vandalism", The Independent, October 4, 2013. Retrieved October 7, 2013.
- ^ "Equal-Parallel: Guernica-Bengasi". Ministry of Education (Spain). Retrieved February 16, 2012.
- ^ Govan, Fiona (July 11, 2006). "Anyone seen our missing 38-ton sculpture?". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved February 16, 2012.
- ^ a b http://www.francis-bacon.cx/popes/velazqueziii_50.html
- ^ "Stolen paintings hung on Italian factory worker's wall for almost 40 years". 2 April 2014.
Further reading
- Adams, Robert (1980). The Lost Museum: Glimpses of Vanished Originals. Viking Press. ISBN 0-670-44107-4.
- British Committee on the Preservation and Restitution of Works of Art, London (1945). Works of Art in Italy: Losses and Survivals in the War.
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- Gamboni, Dario (1997). The Destruction of Art: Iconoclasm and Vandalism since the French Revolution. Reaktion Books. ISBN 978-1-86189-316-1.
- Houpt, Simon (2006). Museum of the Missing: The High Stakes of Art Crime. Key Porter Books. ISBN 978-1-40272-829-7.
- Flick, Gert-Rudolf (2003). Missing Masterpieces: Lost Works of Art, 1450–1900. Merrell. ISBN 1-85894-197-0.
- 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.
- LaFarge, Henry Adams (ed.) (1946). Lost Treasures of Europe: 427 Photographs. Pantheon.
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has generic name (help) - 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.
Norris, Christopher (December 1952). "The Disaster at Flakturm Friedrichshain: a Chronicle and List of Paintings". The Burlington Magazine.{{cite news}}
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Vol. XCIV, Number 597.
External links
- The Story of Leonardo Da Vinci's Horse
- 9/11 Attacks Destroy Cultural and Historical Artifacts
- The Britart fire
- 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