F.B.I. Recovers Stolen Goya Painting

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The FBI said Monday that it has recovered a 1778 painting by the Spanish artist Francisco de Goya that was stolen as it was being taken to an exhibition earlier this month.

''Children with a Cart,'' which disappeared en route from the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City and was valued at about $1.1 million, appeared to be unharmed, said Les Wiser, agent in charge of the Newark FBI office.

Steven Siegel, a spokesman for the FBI, said the bureau recovered the painting Saturday in New Jersey, but would not be more specific about where or how it was located. No arrests were made, but the case remains under investigation, he said.

The FBI said extensive news coverage of the theft led to tips that enabled the agency to recover the painting.

The painting was taken from an art transporter's truck that was parked overnight in a hotel parking lot in Stroudsburg, Pa., on Nov. 8, authorities said. It had been scheduled to be displayed in the exhibition ''Spanish Painting from El Greco to Picasso: Time, Truth, and History,'' which opened at the Guggenheim on Nov. 17.

Siegel said the thieves apparently did not know what was inside the truck when they broke into it. ''It was a target of opportunity. They probably thought it was a truck full of PlayStations,'' he said.

The image of four children at play was insured for about $1 million and was to be exhibited with about 135 paintings by Spanish masters.

The insurer had offered a reward of up to $50,000 for information leading to the recovery of the artwork."