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\n\tThe Renoir Museum is getting back two of its paintings that were taken during a pre-dawn raid. The paintings were recovered by the local authorities in Cagnes-sur-Mer, in southern France, where the museum is located.<\/p>\n
\n\tMayor Bryan Masson, a member of France\u2019s far-right National Rally, said in a statement that these \u201ctwo paintings are far more than works of art. They are part of our city\u2019s history, our cultural heritage and the legacy Auguste Renoir left to Cagnes-sur-Mer. Their recovery is a tremendous relief for the people of Cagnes-sur-Mer and for everyone who cares deeply about our museum.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tThe stolen paintings were Portrait of Madame Colonna Romano<\/em> (1910) and Jeune fille au puits<\/em> (1886), which are estimated to be worth \u20ac9 million ($10.5 million). Six suspects have been arrested in relation to the theft.<\/p>\n \n\tIn September, thieves stole four paintings by the Impressionist painter, but abandoned two of four paintings, Portrait of Madame Pichon<\/em> (1895) and Coco Lisant<\/em> (1905). \u201cAttacking the Renoir Museum is an attack on a part of Cagnes-sur-Mer\u2019s history and heritage,\u201d Masson said at the time, adding that the thieves used \u201can electric knife\u201d or \u201ca metal saw\u201d to cut the bolts from which the paintings hung.<\/p>\n \n\tPrior to the robbery, the museum had on view 12 of Renoir\u2019s paintings. The Renoir Museum was the artist\u2019s last home, and it exhibits his paintings, sculptures, and furniture. Renoir is currently the subject of blockbuster exhibition at the National Gallery in London, featuring 40 of his paintings.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/two-renoir-paintings-worth-millions-recovered-after-theft-1234801903\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/P1444767.jpg?w=1024″] The Renoir Museum is getting back two of its paintings that were taken during a pre-dawn raid. The paintings were recovered by the local authorities in Cagnes-sur-Mer, in southern France, where the museum is located. Mayor Bryan Masson, a member of France\u2019s far-right National Rally, said in a statement that these \u201ctwo […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,226],"class_list":["post-2188253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-artnews-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2188253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2188253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2188253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2188253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2188253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2188253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}