Tập tin:Cholmondeley Oudry White Duck.jpg

This artwork was stolen from Houghton Hall in 1992. This oil painting — The White Duck by Jean-Baptiste Oudry — was valued at ₤5-million; and it has not re-surfaced.

BBC: "Art thief helps aristocrats," BBC News. June 6, 2002.

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The entire image of the stolen painting is used to convey the impression intended and avoid tarnishing or misrepresenting the intended image.

The digitized image of the stolen painting is a size and resolution sufficient to maintain the quality intended by the BBC and the Marquess of Cholmondeley, without being unnecessarily high resolution.

The significance of the image is to help the reader identify the historical painting, to assure the readers that they have reached an article containing critical commentary about art theft, and illustrate the relationship between the painting and the subject of art theft in a way that words alone could not convey.

Because it is an image of a stolen painting, there is almost certainly no free equivalent. Any substitute that is not a derivative work would fail to convey the impression intended by the BBC and the Marquess of Cholmondeley, or would fail its purpose of identification or commentary.

The full image is posted in hopes that it will aid in the recovery of the stolen painting.