Renoir Museum in France robbed – 9 million euros worth of paintings stolen

Four paintings encroached unknown, having penetrated the house-museum of the impressionist Pierre Auguste Renoir in the commune of Caignes-sur-Mer near Nice on September 8, the correspondent of the agency “Minsk-Novosti”.

Two of the four paintings taken by the criminals were found in a garden near the crime scene. The attackers, fleeing after the alarm went off, were forced to leave the canvases. This is reported by the Internet portal 20 minutes. All these works of the artist are estimated at about 9 million euros. However, to implement them legally will not work. It is possible that the thieves were fulfilling the order of someone who had his eye on specific works.

In the estate where Renoir spent the last years of his life, uninvited guests climbed in the early morning, damaging the window. The police arrived at the building five minutes later, but the kidnappers, who were at least two, managed to escape. In the museum, opened in 1960, in addition to paintings, dozens of sculptures and many personal belongings of the painter are stored. In the reports of law enforcement officers, his paintings were not the first time. Other Impressionist works were stolen from a private museum in northern Italy in the spring. They were subsequently found.

The security of museums and galleries in France has come under the spotlight after the robbery of the Louvre in Paris on an October morning in 2025. Then a group of people acted after the opening of the museum and brought valuable items worth 88 million euros. The suspects were later detained. They admitted that the organizer of the attack expected that the extraction of the perpetrators would be more.