This combo shows reproduction from clockwise: "Blossoming Chestnut Branches" by Vincent van Gogh (1890), "Count Lepic and his Daughters" by Edgar Degas (1871), "Poppies near Vetheuil" by Claude Monet (1879) and "Boy in a Red Waistcoat" by Paul Cezanne (1888), reproductions made avalaible on February 11, 2008 of paintings stolen from the Buehrle Foundation museum last Sunday in Zurich. The paintings stolen by three armed men are valued at more than 180 million Swiss francs (NT$5.2billion), police said.
圖中這組複製品的照片從左上順時針方向依序是梵谷「盛開的栗樹花」（1890）、竇加「會計師和他的女兒們」（1871）、莫內「維特尼附近的罌粟花田」（1879）及塞尚「穿紅背心的男孩」（1888）。這是10日從蘇黎世布厄爾基金會美術館失竊的四幅名畫於11日公布的複製品。警方說，被三名武裝搶匪擄走的畫總價值約1億8000萬瑞士法郎（約52億台幣）。
Musem director Lukas Gloor said the stolen works are "the four finest in the museum's collection".
博物館館長葛魯爾說，被盜的是「博物館典藏最好的四幅名畫」。
Three masked men entered the museum on Sunday around 4:30 pm and threatened staff with a pistol. The robbers loaded the paintings into a white car and drove off towards the suburb of Zollikon, southeast of Zurich. "We're talking about the biggest ever robbery carried out in Switzerland, even Europe," Zurich police spokesman Mario Cortesi said.
三名蒙面男子於周日下午四點半侵入美術館，並持槍威脅館員，搶匪把這批名畫裝上一輛白車後，急馳到蘇黎世東南方的左立肯郊外。蘇黎世警方發言人柯特希說：「我們談的是瑞士、甚至全歐洲所曾發生最大宗搶案。」
Gloor said the paintings are so well known that it would be impossible to try and sell them on the open market. He did not exclude the possibility of a ransom demand but said none has yet been received. The museum is offering a reward of 100,000 Swiss francs (NT$2.8million) for information leading to the return of the paintings.
葛魯爾說，這批畫很有名，不可能試圖在公開市場脫手，他不排除要求贖金的可能性，但迄未收到這類要求。布厄爾美術館已懸賞10萬瑞士法郎（280萬台幣），鼓勵各界提供線索，希望儘早收回這批畫。
The Buehrle museum was founded by German-born arms magnate Emil Buehrle. Buehrle made his fortune with the Oerlikon-Buehrle munitions factory in Zurich, which sold arms to both sides in World War II. He began collecting art in the 1930s but made most of his purchases of key Impressionist works in the post-war period. The museum opened in 1960, and holds more than 200 paintings including seven each by Van Gogh and Cezanne, six by Degas and five by Monet, according to its website.
布厄爾美術館由德國出生的軍火大亨布厄爾創立，布厄爾靠位於蘇黎世的歐立肯─布厄爾軍火工廠在二戰期間賣武器給參戰雙方致富。他在1930年代開始收藏名畫，但在戰後才開始購入大半最重要的印象派畫作。美術館於1960年開張，據其網站指出，館藏的200幅名畫，包括七幅梵谷和塞尚的畫作，六幅竇加的作品及五幅莫內的畫作。
The most iconic art theft of all time is probably still that of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, taken from the Louvre in Paris on August 21, 1911. It was recovered in December 1913.
但有史以來最有名的肖像失竊畫仍是達文西的「蒙娜麗莎的微笑」，這幅幾乎家喻戶曉的名畫1911年8月21日於巴黎羅浮宮失竊，1913年12月完璧歸趙。