A painting by 19th century artist Edgar Degas worth of 800.000 euros was stolen from a French museum, police say.
The colourful image of singers performing on a theatre stage was missing when staff opened up the Cantini Museum in the southern port city of Marseille, prosecutor Jacques Dallest said.
Loaned by the Orsay museum in Paris for an exhibition featuring some 20 works by Degas, it measures 32 centimetres by 27 (some 13 inches by 10) and could have been smuggled out after being unscrewed from the wall.
