Masson said the museum alarm and police sirens \u201cforced the burglars to hurry, stealing only four works from the Renoir Museum\u201d.<\/p>\n
He added that, of those four, two were \u201cleft behind in the gardens of the Renoir museum\u201d.<\/p>\n
They made off with Portrait Of Madame Colonna Romano and the depiction of a woman at a well called Jeune Femme Au Puits.<\/p>\n
Recovered from the museum grounds were the paintings Madame Pichon and Coco Lisant, a portrait of Renoir\u2019s son Claude reading.<\/p>\n
Renoir’s portrait of his son reading, Coco Lisant, was stolen by the thieves but later abandoned in the grounds of the museum. <\/p>\n
A representative of a top French police union suggested that reconnaissance work was carried out beforehand.<\/p>\n
Lilie Jalabert of the Alliance Police Nationale said: \u201cThese were certainly not first-time offenders. They were people with some experience who had, at the very least, scoped out the premises before carrying out this crime.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Renoir Museum lies half an hour\u2019s drive from the southern city of Nice, in Renoir\u2019s last home before he died aged 78 in 1919.<\/p>\n
Its collection comprises nine paintings by Renoir, according to the museum.<\/p>\n
It also includes several sculptures by him, as well as objects and furniture that belonged to the painter, such as his easel and wheelchair.<\/p>\n
Some of his more famous works are on display at the Musee d\u2019Orsay in Paris, as well as in London and New York.<\/p>\n
A spate of heists at French museums, including at the Louvre, has highlighted inadequate security in some cases and led to questions about whether criminal gangs see them as soft targets.<\/p>\n
The four suspected Louvre robbers have been arrested, but the jewels they are accused of grabbing in the seven-minute heist have still not been found.<\/p>\n
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