Missing Goya Painting Is Recovered
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The Francisco de Goya y Lucientes painting stolen as it was transported to a museum in New York was recovered in New Jersey, FBI officials said today.
The painting, “Children with a Cart,” (1778), was taken from a truck that was parked overnight in a parking lot in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, on November 8. The truck was bringing the painting to the Solomon R. Guggenheim museum from the Toledo Museum of Art for an exhibition on Spanish art that opened last Friday.
The FBI said the painting was found through tips that came about because of the extensive press coverage of the theft. Because the investigation is ongoing, the FBI isn’t immediately providing information about the recovery or “possible criminal charges resulting from the investigation,” according to a statement.
The painting was insured for $1 million. The company that insured it offered a $50,000 reward after the theft was first announced.
The FBI said the painting appeared to be undamaged.
Museum officials said the painting would be returned to the Toledo Museum of Art, where it has been part of the museum’s permanent collection since 1959.
“We are ecstatic that the painting has been recovered, and we look forward to brining the Goya home and sharing it again with our community,” the art director of the Toledo Museum of Art, Don Bacigalupi, said.
