A work of art by Dutch ace Vincent van Gogh was taken from a historical center shut to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus, police have affirmed.

The robbery from the Singer Laren historical center, found 32 kilometers south-east of Amsterdam, happened on what might have been the painter's 167th birthday celebration.

The strike set off the gallery's alert when a glass entryway was crushed after 3 am CEST. When officials showed up, they had left the premises with van Gogh's The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring 1884, police said in an announcement.

An examination has been propelled including measurable agents and workmanship robbery specialists, police included, approaching close by inhabitants and shops to give them any security film they may have.

Evert van Os, the exhibition hall's general chief, said the establishment was "furious, stunned, pitiful" at the burglary.

The artistic creation, whose worth was not promptly known, was on credit to the Singer Laren from the Groninger Museum, in the north of the nation.

Artist Laren's chief, Jan Rudolph de Lorm, said the robbery "is awful for the Groninger Museum, it is awful for the Singer, yet it is awful for all of us since craftsmanship exists to be seen and shared by us, the network, to appreciate to attract motivation from and to draw comfort from, particularly in these troublesome occasions."

The Groninger Museum, as far as concerns its depicted itself as "stunned" and focused on that "the 1884 work, oil on paper and board (marouflage) is the main painting by Van Gogh in the Groninger Museum's assortment."

It can't first prominent robbery from the gallery. In 2007, criminals took seven works from its model nursery, including a bronze cast of The Thinker by Auguste Rodin. The renowned model was recuperated a couple of days after the fact, missing a leg.