ALTAR PICTURE STOLEN
“ADORATION OF THE LAMB.” THEFT FROM CATHEDRAL. Brussels, April 11. One of the world’s greatest art treasures, the famous painting, “Adoration Of the Latnb,” the altar piece by the two Flemish masters, Jan and Hubert van Eyck, has vanished from a dimlylighted chapel in St Bavon Cathedral, Ghent, The picture, which is four and a-half feet high and 20 inches wide, is considered to be priceless. The loss was discovered on Wednesday morning when the cathedral steward was making his usual rounds. It is supposed that the thief concealed himself on Tuesday night, subsequently making his exist by a wooden door that was found broken open from the inside. The picture figures in the Treaty of Versailles, it having hung in the Kaiser Friedrich Museum in Berlin. Germany was required to restore it to Belgium when, the Treaty was signed.
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Taranaki Daily News, 28 April 1934, Page 2 (Supplement)
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