FBI Top Ten Art Crimes - Art Crime Team

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RECOVERED

THEFT OF GOYA’S
Children with a Cart

Franciso de Goya y Lucientes, Children with a Cart

Franciso de Goya y Lucientes, Children with a Cart

DESCRIPTION

On November 20, 2006, FBI Newark and FBI Philadelphia announced the recovery of the 1778 painting by Francisco de Goya y Lucientes entitled Children with a Cart.

For more information on the recovery, see the FBI press release.

On November 8, 2006, Children with a Cart, a painting by Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, was discovered missing while being transported from the Toledo Museum of Art, in Toledo, Ohio, to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City. It was to be included in the exhibition Spanish Painting from El Greco to Picasso: Time, Truth, and History which opened at the Guggenheim on November 17, 2006.

For more information, see the joint press release by Toledo Museum of Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum  (pdf), as well as the press release by the FBI Philadelphia.  

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