Two Renoir Paintings Recovered After French Museum Heist
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Two paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir stolen last month from the Renoir Museum in Cagnes-sur-Mer, southern France, have been recovered, local authorities said Friday. Six people have been arrested in connection with the theft.
The recovered works are *Portrait of Madame Colonna Romano* (1910) and *Jeune fille au puits* (1886), also translated as *Young Woman at the Well*. Both belong to Paris’s Orsay Museum and were on loan to the museum in Cagnes-sur-Mer. Officials did not disclose where the paintings were found or their condition, and a planned news conference was cancelled to avoid interfering with the investigation.
The robbery occurred shortly before 6 a.m. on September 8. The thieves cut through a fence, entered the museum through a smashed window and used an electric saw to remove paintings from their mountings. They initially took four works but abandoned *Madame Pichon* and *Coco Reading*, a portrait of Renoir’s son Claude, in the museum gardens as police arrived after an alarm sounded.
The four paintings were valued by Mayor Bryan Masson at about €9 million ($10.5 million). Police said after the robbery that the perpetrators appeared experienced and had surveyed the premises beforehand.
“These two paintings are not simply works of art. They are part of our city’s history, our heritage,” Masson said, describing their recovery as “an immense relief.”
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