Chez Tortoni is a painting by the French artist Édouard Manet, painted ca. 1875. The oil-on-canvas painting measures . The painting hung in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum of Boston, Massachusetts, United States prior to its theft in 1990 and it has not yet been recovered. A $10 million reward is offered for the return of Chez Tortoni and the other stolen items.
Description The painting depicts an unidentified gentleman sitting at a table in the Café Tortoni de Paris while drawing on a sketchpad. A half-empty glass of beer stands on the table.
In popular culture The painting was featured in a background scene in season 3, episode 1 ("The Birthday") of The Vampire Diaries. It also appeared in season 3, episodes 3 and 5 of the French Netflix series Lupin. It also appeared in L'Art du crime, season 6, episodes 1 and 2, "La nouvelle Olympia". A description of the painting and its theft were discussed in the opening of Darknet Diaries episode 147, "Tornado", by Jack Rhysider.
See also
List of paintings by Édouard Manet List of stolen paintings
References