The painting was stolen from the Singer Laren museum in the early hours of Monday morning
Dutch police are investigating after an “incredibly valuable” Van Gogh landscape was stolen from a local museum in the Netherlands in an overnight break-in.
The 1884 painting, “Parsonage garden in Nuenen, Spring” was taken from the Singer Laren museum in Laren, in the north of the country, where it was on loan for a special exhibition.
According to Dutch police, burglars apparently smashed through a glass door at around 3.15am on Monday, setting off a burglar alarm but stealing the painting and making a quick escape before officers arrived.
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Jan Rudolph de Lorm, art historian and director of the Singer Laren museum, stressed that it was not only a loss for his museum, and the artwork’s owner, the Groninger Museum…
Photograph: Singer Laren Museum/Reuters
