Thieves pried open the emergency door of a small Dutch museum with an iron bar and made off with six 17th-century and 19th-century landscape paintings and the second major art heist in 10 days in the Netherlands.
The paintings included three by Jan van Goyen, a prolific modern of Rembrandt who died in 1656. The others were a 17th century paintings by Pieter de Neyn and 19th-century pieces by Willem Roelofs and Adrianus van Everdingen. The damaged workings were by Salomon van Ruysdael and Salomon Rombouts.
The paintings, on loan from the Dutch government, were frequently river scenes set in the flat countryside typical of northern Holland, a specialty of the IJsselstein City Museum. The town is a community of Utrecht.
The major theft in the country took place in 1988 when three Van Goghs, with an estimated value of up to $90 million, were stolen from the Kroeller-Mueller Museum in a park in the eastern Netherlands. Police later recovered all three great paintings.
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