Honoré Joseph Géry Pieret

Honoré Joseph Géry Pieret was a Belgian con artist and thief known for his involvement in the theft of art pieces from the Louvre in the early 20th century. He famously stole an Iberian head from the museum, which eventually came into the possession of the artist Pablo Picasso. Pieret's actions led to a scandal that implicated both Picasso and poet Guillaume Apollinaire in a series of art thefts, resulting in a police investigation that made headlines.