###### officials were surprised to learn it ###### once been displayed in their galleries, ###### even more shocked when they discovered ###### "On the Shore of the Seine" ###### been stolen off their walls in ######.
Enter the FBI. It seized the ######, setting up a legal tug of ###### over the rightful ownership of a ###### but- like his signature works- colorful ######, whose value had suddenly plummeted to ###### because of the dispute, in the ###### of one art expert.]]> In a six-page letter in ###### to the FBI's special agent in ###### of the Forfeiture and Seized Property ######, Fuqua, of Lovettsville, Virginia, made a ###### on the painting and demanded its ######.
"Because I, having purchased the Renoir ###### for value, am both an owner ###### innocent owner of the Renoir painting," ###### wrote, "and because I did not ###### in, or have knowledge of, any ###### conduct that resulted in the property ###### subject to forfeiture, I have a ###### claim of right and am entitled ###### the return of the painting."
Neil ######, the U.S. attorney for the Eastern ###### of Virginia, responded by filing a ###### for the government to retain custody ###### the painting until the court decides ###### rightful owner.]]>