Fake FBI confiscate Fake Rembrandt
March 17 2025
Picture: Dalton Wisdom
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
It seems that a contemporary art gallery in New York wanted to pull a fun prank on their drinks reception guests over the weekend. In the middle of proceedings, a group of dressed up 'FBI officers' raided the gallery to remove what seemed to be Rembrandt's The Storm on the Sea of Galilee, a picture stolen from the Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum in 1990 (and still missing). Alas, any eagle eye watcher of this video will notice that the 'Rembrandt' is in fact an oleograph, one of those cheap printed out photographs which is touched up with varnish to give the effect of being 'painted'. A nice try, I suppose!
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