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Chez Tortoni
Stolen painting by Édouard Manet From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Chez Tortoni is a painting by the French artist Édouard Manet, painted ca. 1875. The oil-on-canvas painting measures 26 by 34 centimetres (10 in × 13 in).[1] The painting hung in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum of Boston, Massachusetts, United States prior to its theft in 1990 and it has not yet been recovered.[2] A $10 million reward is offered for the return of Chez Tortoni and the other stolen items.[1]
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The painting depicts an unidentified gentleman sitting at a table in the[Café Tortoni de Paris while drawing on a sketchpad.[3] A half-empty glass of beer stands on the table.[4]
In popular culture
The painting was featured in a background scene in season 3, episode 1 ("The Birthday") of The Vampire Diaries. It also appeared in season 3, episodes 3 and 5 of the French Netflix series Lupin. It also appeared in L'Art du crime, season 6, episodes 1 and 2, "La nouvelle Olympia".
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