{"id":9033,"date":"2018-02-23T19:42:01","date_gmt":"2018-02-24T02:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=9033"},"modified":"2018-03-06T19:50:55","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T02:50:55","slug":"degas-on-the-bus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2018\/02\/23\/degas-on-the-bus\/","title":{"rendered":"Degas On The Bus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2018\/02\/23\/stolen-degas-painting-found-bus-near-paris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>from The Telegraph<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Stolen \u00a3700,000 Degas painting found on a bus near Paris<\/h1>\n<p>by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/authors\/rory-mulholland\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rory Mulholland<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/content\/dam\/news\/2018\/02\/23\/TELEMMGLPICT000000809132_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqaaifWByt_wayDCPVKlKuC0ot89quSQcOo9lqFMcFi1U.jpeg\" width=\"480\" \/><em>Edgar Degas was a leading Impressionist. CREDIT:\u00a0HERVE LEWANDOWSKI\/AFP\/GETTY IMAGES)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>French customs officers making a random check on a bus at a motorway layby found a painting by 19th century Impressionist master Edgar Degas that was stolen nine years ago from a museum in Marseille.<\/p>\n<p>The 1877 painting Les Choristes, or The Chorus Singers and sometimes called \u00a0The Extras, was found in a suitcase in the vehicle\u2019s luggage compartment during a stopover in Marne-la-Vall\u00e9e to the east of Paris.<\/p>\n<p data-mediaconductor-processed=\"true\">Its value is estimated at \u20ac800,000 (\u00a3700,000).<\/p>\n<p>But when the officers asked passengers who the case belonged to, they were met with a stony silence, the culture ministry said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIts disappearance represented a heavy loss to the French impressionist heritage,\u201d said Culture Minister Fran\u00e7oise Nyssen, who issued a statement saying she was delighted at \u201cthe happy rediscovery of a precious work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2018\/02\/23\/stolen-degas-painting-found-bus-near-paris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click to continue reading at The Telegraph<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Telegraph Stolen \u00a3700,000 Degas painting found on a bus near Paris by\u00a0Rory Mulholland Edgar Degas was a leading Impressionist. CREDIT:\u00a0HERVE LEWANDOWSKI\/AFP\/GETTY IMAGES) French customs officers making a random check on a bus at a motorway layby found a painting by 19th century Impressionist master Edgar Degas that was stolen nine years ago from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}