{"id":132779,"date":"2026-09-09T09:08:37","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T04:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/?p=132779"},"modified":"2026-09-09T09:08:40","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T04:08:40","slug":"2-renoir-paintings-missing-after-break-in-at-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/2026\/132779\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Renoir paintings missing after break-in at museum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CAGNES-SUR-MER(National Times)-  Police were on Tuesday hunting for two thieves who escaped with two Renoir paintings from a museum in southern France, after abandoning two others in its garden as they fled, a mayor said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The heist is the latest in a string of such robberies in France including the daylight&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1950370\">theft<\/a>&nbsp;last year of crown jewellery valued at around $100 million from the Louvre in Paris. Bryan Masson, the mayor of the southern town of Cagnes-sur-Mer, said the duo appeared \u201cwell equipped and well informed\u201d about the museum housing works by French impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThey were equipped with a metal saw and cut through the pistons that held the frames of Renoir\u2019s works,\u201d he said. But \u201cthe museum and police sirens forced the burglars to hurry, stealing only four works from the Renoir Museum,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of those four, two were \u201cleft behind in the gardens of the Renoir museum\u201d, added the far-right official, whose office earlier estimated the value of the stolen works at 9 million euros ($10 million).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They made off with a portrait titled \u201cMadame Colonna Romano\u201d and the dep\u00adi\u00adction of a woman at a well called \u201cJeune femme au puits\u201d, his office said. The paintings retrieved include \u201cMadame Pichon\u201d and \u201cCoco lisant\u201d, a portrait of Renoir\u2019s young son Claude reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAGNES-SUR-MER(National Times)- Police were on Tuesday hunting for two thieves who escaped with two Renoir paintings from a museum in southern France, after abandoning two others in its garden as they fled, a mayor said. 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