🔻Thieves broke into a museum in southern France dedicated to the works of Pierre-Auguste Renoir, an Impressionist painter, and stole two artworks worth millions of dollars.

According to Bryan Massen, mayor of Cagnes-sur-Mer, the thieves entered the museum early Tuesday, September 8, shortly before 6 a.m., after creating a hole in the garden fence, and took four paintings.

Police arrived at the scene within five minutes and pursued the thieves. They left two paintings along the escape route, but fled with the other two. One of those two paintings is “Portrait of Madame C.-Colonna Romano (1910) by Pierre-Auguste Renoir,” and the other is “Young Woman by the Well (1886) by Camille Pissarro.”

The museum, which was set up in 1960 in Renoir’s house on a hill near Nice, contains a collection of 13 paintings by the artist and about 40 sculptures, pieces of furniture, and photographs.

Museum security—especially after the highly publicized theft at the Louvre Museum in Paris a year ago—has created growing concern in France.