Jeune Femme au puits

They took, they cut free four paintings and left two behind while running from the police.

But they managed to get away with these two, the Portrait of Madame Colonna Romano, painted in nineteen ten, and The Young Woman at the Well, painted in eighteen eighty-six.

And together these two paintings were worth about four point seven million dollars.

They were discovered at a home about two hundred twenty miles west of the town where the museum is located, and they were hidden behind a solid cinder block wall.

On Friday, authorities announced that t- the two outstanding stolen works had been found.

Uh, they were a portrait titled, uh, Portrait of Madame, uh, Colonna-Romano, and a depiction of a woman at a well called Young Woman at the Well.

Speaking to reporters in Paris, uh, Paris, Marseille, Marseille [laughs] prosecutor Nicolas, uh, Bessone said the paintings were recovered last Thursday during a search of a home in the southern town of Clermont-her- Heralt.

[laughs] Fuck.

The two paintings were in relatively good condition, although the two works showed signs of damage.

Uh, let's see.

The frame of the Young Woman at the Well was slightly damaged while the canvas of Portrait of Madame Colonna-Romano had a tear, Bessone said.

The tear was located on the dress of the portrait, uh, the prosecutor said, adding that both paintings will require restoration work.

The local mayor there is praising investigators for tracking down the paintings and the suspects.

The two paintings are a portrait of Madame Colonna Romano, and Young Woman at the Well.

The thieves sliced through a fence, climbed through a window, and initially stole four paintings, but they had to abandon two as they fled the scene in a daring theft that took less than three minutes to complete.

The stolen paintings were among the most valuable works in the Renoir Museum.

Reuters reported that six suspects have been arrested.

The works are Madame Colonna Romano and Young Woman at the Well, both on loan from the Musée d'Orsay in Paris.

Mayor Brian Masson called the news of their recovery a source of immense joy and a great relief for the town.

The raid was quick.

All belonged to the Musée d'Orsay, which had lent them long-term to Cagnes.

The works span three decades of Renoir's career.

Young Woman at the Well dates from 1886 and Madame Pichon from 1895 and the Coco reading portrait of the painter's young son Claude from 1905.

Madame Colonna Romano is from 1910, although some reports put the date at 1913.

Six people have also been arrested.

Two works, Portrait of Madame Colonna Romano and Young Woman at the Well, had been on loan from the Orsay Museum in Paris.

They were stolen from a museum in Southern France, which used to be a home of the impressionist artist.

The theft revived concerns for the nation's cultural treasures after the heist at the Louvre Museum last year.