Degas painting stolen from French museum

The national museums service said the picture was a pastel work titled "The Chorus", worth 800,000 euros (1.14 million dollars), correcting an estimate given by police and museum staff that it was worth some 30 million euros.
Loaned by the Orsay museum in Paris for an exhibition of theatre-themed artworks including some 20 works by Degas, it measures 32 centimetres by 27 (about 13 inches by 10). Dallest said it had been unscrewed from the wall.
"As far as I know there was no break-in," Dallest said, adding that investigators suspected an intruder, a visitor to the exhibition or an inside job.
City councillor Maurice Di Nocera, responsible for organising major events in Marseille, called the theft "a disaster for the museum."
The museum was closed Thursday while police investigated, examining film from security cameras.
The city hall, which runs the museum, said 70,000 people had visited the exhibition and the show was due to close in Marseille on January 3 and go on tour later to Italy and Canada.
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