Goya painting stolen en route to New York

A painting by famed Spanish artist Francisco de Goya was stolen as it was being transported to a US exhibition at New York City's Guggenheim Museum.

The painting, Children with a Cart, disappeared last week while en route to the Solomon Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan, the museum announced in a joint release with Ohio's Toledo Museum of Art, which owns the oil painting.

At the time of the theft in the area of Scranton, Pennsylvania, the picture was in the care of a professional art transporter, the museums said.

The image of four children at play, completed in 1778, was insured for about $1m (€780,000) and was to be exhibited with about 135 paintings by Spanish masters.

The FBI is investigating the case, and the insurer has offered a reward of up to $50,000 (€39,000) for information leading to the recovery of the artwork.