The Pissarro dossier follows ownership and restitution disputes, including the Cassirer litigation and the French ruling concerning the Salomon Flavian heirs. A judgment, reconsideration, planned appeal and enforcement in another jurisdiction are different stages; the reports retain those distinctions.
8 reports · Source dates: 17 Mar 1941 — 6 Nov 2026
Each entry reflects its source on the stated date. A historical theft report does not mean a work remains missing. Attributions, allegations and decisions remain distinct; this dossier does not authenticate artworks.
Not documented in this record: inscriptions & markings · distinguishing features · subject.
Packed for shipment via Rotterdam with Nachmann’s belongings; missing from the consignment on arrival in New York.
Monuments Men and Women Foundation ↗ · checkedOnly stages supported by the cited sources are shown. This list is not a complete chain of ownership.
Not documented in this record: inscriptions & markings · distinguishing features · subject.
David Friedmann collection, Breslau; recorded in the official inventory of his collection.
Monuments Men and Women Foundation ↗ · checkedFriedmann’s estate was confiscated; the painting’s precise removal date and subsequent route remain uncertain.
Monuments Men and Women Foundation ↗ · checkedOnly stages supported by the cited sources are shown. This list is not a complete chain of ownership.
Identification details follow the Object ID categories where documented. Ownership history is recorded separately; this documentation is not an authentication or a certificate of ownership.
Reporting on the 5 November ruling says the court ordered restitution of Darse de pêche et bassin Duquesne and cancellation of its 2024 London sale. Mondex intends to appeal and Sotheby's is considering joining. Enforcement in the UK requires further proceedings.
The US Supreme Court vacated the previous judgment and remanded the case for further consideration in light of California legislation.
Berlin’s Alte Nationalgalerie returned Camille Pissarro’s 1867 painting A Square in La Roche-Guyon to Armand Dorville’s heirs and then bought it back. The work had been sold in 1942 at an auction of the Jewish lawyer’s collection under the Vichy regime. Image: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Alte Nationalgalerie / Jörg P. Anders.
Germany returned a group of works to France in 1994, including a Pissarro pastel from the Georges Couturat collection and a landscape now attributed to an anonymous artist in Courbet’s circle. The museum records document repatriation to France.
A Pissarro oil measuring 47 × 38 cm appears in ERR exchange 23 with Gustav Rochlitz. The link to the Hamburger collection is tentative and its present location is unverified.
ERR exchange 16 with Alexander von Frey lists this signed oil measuring 41 × 54 cm and dated 1872. Its present location remains unverified.
The wartime investigation records Cows in a Stream and Farmers on a Country Road in ERR exchange 14 with Gustav Rochlitz. The present locations of both paintings remain unverified.
A 1945 investigation lists the Pissarro among works exchanged with Gustav Rochlitz in Paris. Its original collection and present location remain unverified.
