The painting was first stolen by Napoleon's troops from Belvedere Palace in Vienna during the early 19th century. More recently, in 1995, it was taken from Longleat House in England.
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00:00In the 1990s, it was actually on display in the state drawing
00:29room at Longleat House on the first floor and in the middle of the night somebody climbed
00:32up on a ladder and it was stolen out of its frame and it then disappeared and there was
00:38huge concern about where it had ended up. But by some miracle and various long-term
00:44negotiations it was eventually returned after a reward was paid in a blue and white plastic
00:49bag in a bus stop in Richmond. So it's a rather surprising story.