'Ground Swell' by Edward Hopper, 1939. Currently located at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. #OGC #art detective #art crime #art theft #lootedartifacts #antiquitiestrafficking #art #paintingoftheday

US authorities return antiquities linked with notorious smuggling ring to Egypt. #OGC #artdetective #artcrime #arttheft #lootedartifacts

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'Basket of Fruit' by the Italian Baroque master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, 1599. Currently located at the Ambrosian Library, in Milan. #OGC #artdetective #artcrime #arttheft # #lootedartifacts #baroque #paintingoftheday

#WantedWednesday The Florentine Diamond is light yellow in color with very slight green overtones. Displayed with a 9-sided, 126-facet double rose cut, with a weight of 137.27 carats. The diamond was stolen sometime in 1918 by close friends of the fallen Austrian royal family.

'The Market Cart' by Thomas Gainsborough,1786. This painting is one of the artists final landscapes, painted about 18 months before his death. Located at the National Gallery in London. #OGC #artdetective #arttheft #artcrime #rococo #paintingoftheday

#WantedWednesday 'Madeleine Leaning on her Elbow with Flowers in her Hair' by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1918. The painting was stolen during an armed robbery from a private residence in Houston, Texas on September 8th 2011. #OGC #artdetective #artcrime #arttheft #stolenpainting

Manhattan District Attorneys Office, returns 38 antiquities to China. #OGC #artdetective #artcrime # #arttheft #lootedartifacts

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#WantedWednesday 'View of Auvers-sur-Oise' by Paul Cézanne, 1879 - 1880. On New Year's Day 2000, the painting was discovered to be missing, Police believe the thief or thieves used a smoke bomb at that night's millennium celebrations as a cover for the theft. #OGC #artdetective

Christie’s withdraws four ancient Greek vases amid concerns about their provenance and connection to disgraced antiquities dealers. #OGC #artdetective #artcrime #arttheft #lootedartifacts

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Spanish police recover nearly 200 looted archaeological pieces. #OGC #artdetective #artcrime #arttheft #lootedartifacts

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‘Monuments men’ escort looted art back to Okinawa. #OGC #artdetective #artcrime #arttheft #LootedAntiquties

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'The Allegory of Painting' by Johannes Vermeer, 1666-1668. The canvas depicts the artist painting a woman dressed in blue, posing in the studio. Currently located at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. #OGC #artdetective #artcrime #arttheft #baroque #paintingoftheday

#WantedWednesday Tucker's Cross was an emerald-studded gold cross discovered by marine explorer Teddy Tucker in 1955, later donated to the Aquarian Museum where it remained until it was discovered to have been stolen sometime prior to 1975 and replaced with a fake. #OGC

Denver Art Museum to return 11 artifacts connected to smuggler Douglas Latchford. #OGC #artdetective #artcrime #arttheft #lootedartifacts

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'The Entrance to the Grand Canal, Venice' by Canaletto, 1730. The painting is a Rococo landscape painting, currently held as part of the Robert Lee Blaffer Memorial Collection in the Audrey Jones Beck Building at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas. #OGC #paintingoftheday

#WantedWednesday 'En Canot' by Jean Metzinger, 1913. The painting was acquired by National Gallery in 1936 where it was placed on display in Room 5. It was later confiscated by the Nazis around 1936, and was last seen in 1937–38, and has been missing ever since. #OGC #artcrime

FBI returns looted artifacts found in Massachusetts attic to Japan. #OGC #artdetective #artcrime #arttheft #lootedartifacts
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'The Cliff Walk at Pourville' by Claude Monet, 1882. Located at the The Art Institute of Chicago. #OGC #art detective #art crime #art theft #impressionism #art #paintingoftheday

#WantedWednesday The Alexander III Commemorative egg is a jewelled enameled egg made under the supervision of the Russian jeweller Peter Carl Fabergé in 1909, for Nicholas II of Russia. The egg is one of the six Imperial Fabergé eggs that are currently missing. #OGC #artdetective

'Echo and Narcissus' by John William Waterhouse, 1903. The painting illustrates the myth of Echo and Narcissus from Ovid's Metamorphoses. Currently located at The Walker Art Gallery is an art gallery in Liverpool. #OGC #art detective #art crime #art theft #art #paintingoftheday