Suspects arrested for stealing Renoir works from Buddhism Museum... I can't find the stolen item.

AFP reported on the 7th (local time), citing sources, that five suspects were arrested by the police in connection with the theft of a work by Auguste Renoir from an art museum in France last month.

They are suspected of stealing Renoir's paintings 'Portrait of Madame Colonna Romano' (1910) and 'Young Woman at the Well' (1886) from the Renoir Museum in Cagnes-sur-Mer, a small city near Nice in southern France, in the early morning of the 8th of last month.

The gang of thieves cut the fence with a chainsaw, broke in through the first floor window, and stole four works of art. When the police arrived, they abandoned two of the works and ran away.

Local newspaper Nicematin reported that among the group arrested on this day were two people suspected of stealing paintings directly from the museum, and that the two stolen Renoir works have not yet been recovered.

This art museum was built in 1960 by converting Renoir's last residence until his death in 1919 into an exhibition space. It displayed 13 of Renoir's paintings, sculptures, furniture, and photographs. It is said that the two stolen pieces were both on loan from the collection of the Musée d'Orsay in Paris.

Previously, city authorities estimated the value of the first four pieces stolen at 9 million euros (about 14 billion won).

Museums and art galleries in Europe, including France, have recently been suffering from thieves targeting jewelry, cultural heritage, and works of art.

Last year, jewelry worth 88 million euros (about 137 billion won) was stolen from the Louvre Museum, a famous attraction in Paris, and the stolen items have not yet been recovered. In March of this year, works by Renoir, Paul Cézanne, and Henri Matisse were stolen from the Magnani Rocca Foundation Museum in Parma, northern Italy, but recovered a few months later.