Modern art heist at Dutch museum

"Waterloo Bridge, London" by Claude Monet, one of seven paintings stolen from the Kunsthal Museum in Rotterdam, Dutch police reported Oct. 16, 2012. The heist, one of the largest in years in the Netherlands, occurred while the private Triton Foundation collection was being exhibited publicly as a group for the first time.

A investigator searches the Rotterdam Kunsthal museum break-in early on October 16, 2012.

"Harlequin Head" by Pablo Picasso (1971), one of seven modern artworks Dutch police say were stolen from the Kunsthal Museum in Rotterdam. The heist, one of the largest in years in the Netherlands, occurred while the private Triton Foundation collection was being exhibited publicly as a group for the first time.

"Reading Girl in White and Yellow" by Henri Matisse (1919), one of seven paintings Dutch police say were stolen from the Kunsthal Museum in Rotterdam.

Claude Monet's "Charing Cross Bridge, London" (1901), one of seven paintings Dutch police say were stolen from the Kunsthal Museum in Rotterdam.

The 1898 painting "Girl in Front of Open Window" by Paul Gaugain, one of seven paintings Dutch police say were stolen from the Kunsthal Museum in Rotterdam.

This photo released by the police in Rotterdam, Netherlands, on Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012, shows the 1890 painting "Self-Portrait" by Meyer de Haan. The heist, one of the largest in years in the Netherlands, occurred while the private Triton Foundation collection was being exhibited publicly as a group for the first time.

Lucian Freud's "Woman With Closed Eyes," one of the seven modern masterworks police said were stolen from the Kunsthal Museum in Rotterdam.

A forensic expert talks on his mobile phone as police vehicles are parked near a statue at the back entrance of the Kunsthal Museum in Rotterdam, Tuesday Oct. 16, 2012. Several paintings were stolen from a museum that was exhibiting works by Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse.

Forensic experts take samples of imprints outside the Kunsthal Museum in Rotterdam, Netherlands, Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012. Several paintings were stolen from the museum that was exhibiting more than 150 modern art masterworks.