A painting by the great master Frans Hals, Two laughing young boys was stolen this Wednesday at dawn from a museum in Leerdam (Netherlands). This is the third time that the canvas has been stolen from this museum.
The painting, which shows two young boys laughing with a bottle of beer, was stolen at dawn from the Hofje van Mevrouw van Aerden museum. The alarm went off around 3:30 am and the police noticed, once there, that a door at the back of the building had been forced.
A fetishist or a "running-gag": Wednesday evening, the Two Laughing Children by Frans Hals were stolen for the third time since 1998 from the Hofje van Mevrouw van Aerden museum in Leerdam. (the photo dates from the previous flight in 2011) pic.twitter.com/yaFUvnz6HV
- moanaweilc (@Mweilc) August 28, 2020Already stolen twice
Dutch police have launched a "wide-ranging investigation" and called in art theft specialists. Investigators viewed the CCTV footage. "The hunt is on" to find this "very important and precious painting", tweeted a Dutch detective specializing in the theft of works of art.
The famous painting had already been stolen from the same museum in 2011 and 1988, before being found six months and three years later respectively. Contemporary of Rembrandt and Vermeer, Frans Hals is one of the masters of the golden age of Dutch painting. He is known for his many portraits, notably The Laughing Cavalier visible in London or La Bohémienne , which belongs to the Louvre in Paris.
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