Works by Renoir, Cézanne, and Matisse worth roughly $10 million were recently stolen from a quaint countryside museum—but they are far from the first valuable art pieces to go missing

The Louvre Museum in Paris, France, has been the scene of more than one art heist. Photo: Oscar Gonzalez/NurPhoto via Getty Images

The Magnani-Rocca Foundation is a small private museum that sits in the quiet countryside outside Parma, Italy, surrounded by the kind of flat green land where the most dramatic event in a given week might be a change in the weather. But on the night of March 22, 2026, something unprecedented took place in this pastoral scene. A group of thieves broke through the front door and, in roughly three minutes, removed three paintings from the walls: Pierre-Auguste Renoir ’s Les Poissons , Paul Cézanne’s Still Life With Cherries , and Henri Matisse’s Odalisque on the Terrace . A fourth work was abandoned at the scene after the museum’s security system interrupted the theft.…