Friday, March 1, 2024

A missing painting

What’s wrong with this paragraph?

Over the next hour and a half, the thieves stole more than a dozen works of art, including pieces by Edgar Degas, Rembrandt van Rijn, Édouard Manet and Peter Paul Rubens, cutting the works from their ornate wooden frames. They also took an ancient Chinese beaker and a bronze eagle finial from a Napoleonic-era flagpole.
It’s from a New York Times obituary for Richard Abath, a night watchman at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum when the heist took place. What neither this paragraph nor the rest of the obituary mentions is that the “more than a dozen works of art” stolen included The Concert, one of only thirty-four known paintings by Johannes Vermeer.

Later today:
Over the next hour and a half, the thieves stole more than a dozen works of art, including pieces by Edgar Degas, Rembrandt van Rijn, Édouard Manet, Peter Paul Rubens and Johannes Vermeer, cutting the works from their ornate wooden frames. They also took an ancient Chinese beaker and a bronze eagle finial from a Napoleonic-era flagpole.

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