A small fishing boat is tossed by a violent sea. A huge wave lifts the bow, the mast leans hard, and the disciples fight the sail and ropes, while one of them leans over the side, seasick. Christ sits calmly among them, and a patch of light breaks through the dark clouds.

One figure at the bottom looks straight out of the picture; the Gardner Museum says he is thought to be the artist himself. The museum calls it Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee, and it is Rembrandt's only known seascape, painted in 1633. Isabella Stewart Gardner bought it in London in November 1898 for £6,000, through the art historian Bernard Berenson and the dealer Colnaghi; she had written to Berenson that his description of the sea picture made her "fairly ache for it." In the early hours of 18 March 1990, two thieves disguised as Boston police officers entered the museum and took 13 works, including this painting, in what the museum calls the largest unsolved art heist in history. Its empty frame still hangs in the Dutch Room as a symbol of hope.

It was stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990 and is still missing.