A Lady and Gentleman in Black is an oil-on-canvas painting, reputedly a work of the Dutch artist Rembrandt in 1633.
In 1987, the Rembrandt Research Project (RRP) disattributed the work, considering it a product of the artist's workshop.
[2] However, the RRP re-attributed the painting to Rembrandt again in its corpus published in 2015, in which it is called Portrait of a couple in an interior.
Art historians speculate that the child died young and that the couple asked for the image to be painted out so as not to bring back painful memories.
[4] It hung in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum of Boston, Massachusetts, United States, prior to being stolen on March 18, 1990 when the canvas was crudely cut with a blade out of its stretcher and likely rolled up despite it needing to be kept flat to avoid cracking the paint.