PARIS: A painting by famed French artist Eugene Delacroix worth more than 600,000 euros ($ 780,000) was stolen Friday from an art gallery in central Paris, an informed source said. The work entitled “The Arabs of Oran” was painted in 1833.
It was on display in a gallery on the chic rue Saint-Honore which runs parallel to the Louvre museum. A gallery worker discovered the theft in the afternoon.
Delacroix, who lived from 1798 to 1863, was the most important member of the French Romantic movement.
Delacroix painting stolen from Paris art gallery
Delacroix painting stolen from Paris art gallery
