Monet, other stolen art found
Police in Marseille, France, recovered a Monet landscape and three other paintings that gunmen had stolen in August from the Museum of Fine Arts in Nice, judicial officials said.
The paintings were discovered in a parked utility vehicle, the prosecutor’s office said. Together, they are worth about $1.55 million, police have said.
The paintings were Monet’s 1897 “Cliffs Near Dieppe,” the 1890 “Lane of Poplars at Moret” by fellow Impressionist Alfred Sisley and Flemish master Jan Brueghel the Elder’s 17th century “Allegory of Earth” and “Allegory of Water.”
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