Delacroix painting stolen from Paris art gallery
December 01, 2012  01:39
A painting by famed French artist Eugene Delacroix worth more than $780,000 was stolen today 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.
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