Priceless Art Stolen From Museum

Sounds like a job for the FBI’s Art Crime Team.  Maybe they should setup a field office in France.

Four works of art, including the Sisley piece pictured below called “Lane of Poplars at Moret-sur-Loing” were stolen by masked and helmeted men.

From Reuters here:

Armed thieves marched into an open museum in the southern French city of Nice and stole four paintings by Impressionists Monet and Sisley, and Flemish painter Jan Brueghel the Elder, police said on Monday.
 
The four men, wearing masks and helmets, forced staff at Nice’s Cheret Museum to lie on the ground on Sunday before they took the works of art and left at around 1 p.m.

Police said the men were probably working to order as the stolen works — Claude Monet’s “Cliffs near Dieppe,” Alfred Sisley’s “Lane of Poplars at Moret-sur-Loing,” and Brueghel’s “Allegory of Water” and “Allegory of Earth” are well known, making them hard to sell.