2 Held in Rembrandt Theft in The Hague

THE HAGUE — A Rembrandt and another 17th-Century Dutch painting were stolen from a government art warehouse, and Dutch police Monday arrested a warehouse employee and her boyfriend as suspects, officials said.

The two paintings, “Man With Beard,” a 1647 work by Rembrandt, and “Winter Landscape With Skaters,” a 1649 painting by Jan van Goyen, were reported missing from the warehouse Jan. 20, according to police spokesman Nico Laterveer.

Rembrandt, whose full name was Rembrandt van Rijn, is the best-known of all 17th-Century Dutch painters.

The two suspects, identified only as a 22-year-old administrative employee of the warehouse and her boyfriend, remained in custody. However, a search of their apartment failed to yield the paintings.