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Pennsylvania Impressionist, Edwin Willis Redfield, is a favorite of forgers

Renoir, Sisley, Lebourg, Dupuy, Le Sidaner recovered; Jean-Pierre and Bernadette Diblanc and Paris dealer Arthur Melki get prison terms; Valerie Diblanc fined; Jean-Paul Lauer gets prison term; art dealer Yvan Delicado gets prison; Christian Deshons gets prison; Guy Meesmaecker fined. Sentence thrown out against art dealer Robert Schmit.

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Zapotec mask, among 145 pre-Columbian objects, from Museu Nacional de Antropologia, Mexico City; Lucas Cranach, the Elder, Breslau Madonna, from cathedral museum, Wroclaw, Poland; Caravaggio, St. Jerome, from St. John's Cathedral, Valletta, Malta; Iran 15th century treatise, among 12 manuscripts, three caskets and Near Eastern jewelry, from London gallery; Monet, Impression, soleil levant, among nine works from Musée Marmottan, Paris; Jacopo Tintoretto, Tarquin and Lucretia, from restoration workshop, Zurich, Switzerland; Adam or Wolfgang Adam Töpffer, Ländliches Fest (Fête champêtre), from Stiftung Oskar Reinhart, Winterthur, Switzerland; John Morisset, freedom box, Portsmouth City Museum and Art Gallery, England; Peter Paul Rubens, Orpheus and Eurydice, from Zurich, Switzerland, museum; Marc Chagall, La joie, and two Charpentier bronzes, from Madison Avenue gallery.

Gustave Courbet, Portrait of Madame Andler, and 14 other paintings, Musée des Jacobins, Morlaix, France; Victor Brauner, Birth of a Poet, and two other pictures, Rome, Italy; Rembrandt, Flight into Egypt etching, and 15 other prints by Rembrandt, Schongauer, and Hirschvogel, Baltimore Museum of Art; Bernardo Bellotto, A Capriccio with a Domed Church and Buildings in Pirna, from residence in Mercatale, near Florence, Italy; Rembrandt, The One Hundred Guilder Print, Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland; Narcisse Virgile Diaz de la Peña, Mythological Figures, and three other paintings, West Hollywood, Calif.; Florence Zeus, Roman copy of Greek original, Museo Archeologico, Florence; French snuff box and collection of snuffboxes, rings, and figurines, Waddesdon Manor, the Rothschild Collection, Buckinghamshire, England, one arrest; Renoir, Jeune fille en rose au chapeau, and Sisley oil, from Nelly Duhem home, Juan-les-Pins, France.

300 works worth over $1 million stolen Dec 31, 1985; raids in Buffalo and Orlando, Florida, recover most of the art. Buffalo antique dealer John Ozolins arrested.

$20,000 for H. F. Farny and six other paintings by Vogt, Volkert and Barillot) stolen from a Cincinnati gallery in May 1985.

Paintings: Renoir, Jeune fille en rose au chapeau; Sisley, Matin d’automne. Prints and Drawings: Rembrandt.

Mexico City, Mexico: Catalogue published and reward offered in theft of pre-Columbian artifacts from Museo Nacional de Antropologia. Portsmouth, England: Morisset Freedom Box from City Museum and Art Gallery. Washington, D.C.: Saint-Gaudens bronze from Oak Hill Cemetery. Hanover, Pennsylvania: $2 million of art silver and jewelry, including works by Chagall, Ernst, Miró, and Picasso from a home. Two men wanted for questioning.