Two stolen Renoir paintings recovered in southern France
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Two paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir stolen last month from a museum in southern France have been recovered, the Cagnes-sur-Mer town hall said Friday. Six suspects have been arrested in connection with the theft, according to the town hall, although details of the recovery and the paintings’ condition were not disclosed.
The recovered works are *Portrait of Madame Colonna Romano* (1910) and *Jeune fille au puits* (1886). Deutsche Welle reported that both belong to Paris’ Orsay Museum and were on loan to the Renoir Museum.
The theft occurred shortly before 6 a.m. on Sept. 8. The burglars cut through a garden fence, smashed a window and used an electric saw to remove the paintings from their frame mountings. They initially took four works but abandoned *Madame Pichon* and *Coco Reading*, a portrait of Renoir’s son Claude, in the museum gardens while fleeing after alarms alerted police.
“These two paintings are not simply works of art. They are part of our city’s history, our heritage,” Mayor Bryan Masson said, describing their recovery as an “immense relief.” A planned news conference about the recovery was canceled to avoid interfering with the investigation.
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