About the Theft:
At about 1:00 PM on Sunday, August 5, 2007, five masked and armed robbers entered the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nice. Within ten minutes, they escaped with four important paintings including one Monet, one Sisley and two Allegories by the Flemish Baroque painters Jan Brueghel the Elder and Hendrik van Balen the Elder. A fifth painting (a Sisley) was damaged and left behind when it was found to be too large to fit in the bags the thieves had brought.
Update, June 5, 2008: All four paintings were recovered from a utility vehicle in the port city of Marseilles by French police. Ten arrests have been made thus far.