A painting by Vincent van Gogh has been stolen from a Dutch museum after the museum’s entrance was shattered on Monday morning.
The painting, an 1884 work titled The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring 1884, had been on loan to the Singer Laren museum near Amsterdam. It is part of the permanent collection of the Groninger Museum, in the northern part of the Netherlands.
According to CNN, museum director Jan Rudolph de Lorm says at a news conference Monday afternoon: “I am shocked and unbelievably pissed off. It is very bad for the Groninger Museum. It’s also very bad for Singer.”
The museum has been closed to the public since the beginning of March due to the outbreak of the Coronavirus pandemic, but it was initially unclear whether its overnight security staff or other measures had been reduced because of health concerns.
