Allegory of the Earth

Allegory of the Earth is a series of paintings by Jan Brueghel the Elder produced c. 1610. One painting from the series in the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nice and another is in the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon.

One painting from the series was stolen in 2007[1] before being recovered in Marseille in 2008[2]

Story

One of these paintings was stolen with 4 other paintings in 2007,[3] before being found in Marseilles in 2008.[4]

It is highlighted during the illuminations of the Place des Terreaux during the Festival of Lights in 2014.

References
  1. Baume, Maïa de la. "Nice Museum Theft - News".
  2. Editorial, Reuters. "French police recover stolen art by Monet, Brueghel".
  3. Erlanger, Steven; Padis, Marc-Olivier; De La Baume, Maïa; Audi, Nadim (2010). "L'idéologie de l'air du temps". Esprit. Mars/avril (3): 54. doi:10.3917/espri.1003.0054. ISSN 0014-0759.
  4. Hill, Charles (2016), "Trying to Recover Two Francesco Guardi Capricci Stolen from Russborough, County Wicklow, in 1986", Art Crime, London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 95–104, ISBN 978-1-349-55370-9, retrieved 2022-03-31


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