Stolen Monet, Brueghels Recovered
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A Monet, a Sisley, and two Brueghels, stolen from a French Riviera museum last year, were recovered by police Wednesday, Agence France-Presse said.
The paintings were found in the Mediterranean port of Marseille and about 10 people were arrested in the police operation, AFP said, citing unidentified French judicial officials.
The four works were stolen from the Beaux-Arts Jules Cheret museum in Nice last August by a group of men on a Sunday afternoon, when entry was free for the public, the report said.
The oil paintings are Claude Monet’s 1897 “Falaises Pres de Dieppe” (“Cliffs near Dieppe”); Alfred Sisley’s “Allee de Peupliers de Moret” (“Lane of Poplars at Moret”) from 1890, and two works by Flemish Baroque artist Jan Brueghel the Elder, “Allegorie de l’Eau” (“Allegory of Water”) and “Allegorie de la Terre” (“Allegory of Earth”).
