Reward offered for stolen Goya Painting

NEW YORK (CNN) -- A reward of up to $50,000 has been offered for information leading to the recovery of a painting by a Spanish master that was stolen while being transported to the Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan.

The theft of the 1778 painting by Francisco de Goya y Lucientes was announced Monday by the Toledo (Ohio) Museum of Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, which issued a joint press release.

The painting, "Children with a Cart," is owned by the Toledo Museum, and is insured for more than $1 million dollars. According to the release, it was discovered missing last week while being transported from Toledo to the Guggenheim, where it was to go on display later this week.

The museums said the painting was taken through the Scranton, Pa., area en route to New York, and the FBI in Philadelphia was involved in the probe. (Posted 9:23 a.m.)

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Hi, thanks and will post this, very strange paintings...maybe they should stay missing.

Brian

 

  

Dear Brian,

I am happy the "Goya" was found in the United States.

 Maybe there are a lot of stolen art out there including Rembrandt's "Storm on the Sea of Galilee" still in the United States.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Thanks!

Kent