Goya painting stolen en route to New York exhibition

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NEW YORK (AFP) — Thieves have made off with a painting by 18th century Spanish master Francisco de Goya after intercepting the canvas en route to New York for a special exhibition opening Friday, officials said. "Children with a Cart," a 1778 painting on loan from the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio, went missing in Pennsylvania, short of its intended destination at New York's Guggenheim Museum, the two galleries said in a statement.

They did not explain how the canvas was transported, saying only it was in the care of a professional art transportation firm when it went missing. A reward of up to 50,000 dollars is being offered by the insurers for information leading to the painting's recovery, the statement said. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is leading the probe into...