All articles tagged with #museum burglary
Thieves broke into the Renoir Museum in Cagnes-sur-Mer by cutting a garden fence and removing four Renoir paintings worth about €9 million; two works were recovered in the museum garden, while two—Portrait of Madame Colonna Romano and Young Woman at the Well—remain missing as police search the area with CCTV in a major manhunt that follows recent high-profile art thefts in France and Italy.
Two Renoir paintings were stolen in a dawn break-in at the Renoir Museum in Cagnes-sur-Mer on the French Riviera; four Renoir works were taken, two abandoned in the gardens, leaving two still missing, as police hunt two suspects who remain at large and investigators review security breaches and potential fences-cutting methods.
France's Louvre museum did not have insurance coverage for the stolen jewelry of significant historical value, including pieces belonging to Empress Eugénie, after a burglary where thieves used a furniture lift to access the museum. The loss highlights the challenges of insuring large, priceless collections and the increasing thefts of gold and precious metals from museums worldwide, driven by soaring metal prices.