Two Renoir Paintings Discarded in Garden Dirt as French Police Chase Riviera Museum Burglars

Two Renoir paintings were abandoned in the museum garden as French police closed in on suspects following the Riviera art theft. (Credit: Adrian Scottow/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS)

Four Renoir paintings were snatched from a museum on the French Riviera in a break-in that lasted less than three minutes, but the escape quickly unravelled when police arrived.

Two of the Renoir paintings stolen were abandoned in the museum garden as the suspects fled. Two others, 'Portrait of Madame Colonna Romano' and 'Young Woman at the Well', remain missing.