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This Classic Painting Hung In a British Stately Home. Then Thieves Pounced.

Lost Masterpieces

In the early 1990s, thieves hunted down Jean-Baptiste Oudry’s celebrated 18th-century still life The White Duck, and absconded with it, along with several antique clocks.

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