Restitution reports
Nazi-looted Claude Monet artwork returned
The FBI announced the return to the original owners’ heirs after the work had been missing for more than 80 years.
Documented dossier
Claude Monet
Monet reports span Nazi-era restitution, museum thefts and later recoveries, including Beach in Pourville. Several accounts concern robberies involving works by multiple artists. Each entry identifies its own source and date so that a recovery or restitution is not confused with the original loss.
7 reports · Source dates: 27 Oct 1985 — 9 Oct 2024
Restitution reports 2Forgery proceedings 1Recovery reports 2Legal disputes 1Theft reports 1
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.
Artwork Details & DocumentationIdentification, ownership history and supporting records
Manet Painting in Monet’s Garden
- Artwork title
- Manet Painting in Monet’s GardenMonuments Men and Women Foundation ↗ · checked
- Maker / attribution
- Claude MonetMonuments Men and Women Foundation ↗ · checked
- Object type
- PaintingMonuments Men and Women Foundation ↗ · checked
- Materials & technique
- Oil on canvasMonuments Men and Women Foundation ↗ · checked
- Measurements
- 41 × 68 cm (16.14 × 26.77 in.)Monuments Men and Women Foundation ↗ · checked
- Creation date / period
- 1874Monuments Men and Women Foundation ↗ · checked
Not documented in this record: inscriptions & markings · distinguishing features · subject.
Documented ownership history
- 1898
- 1943-03
Confiscated from the Liebermann apartment in Berlin; subsequent whereabouts undocumented.
Monuments Men and Women Foundation ↗ · checked
Only 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.
Reports and developments
Newest source reports first
Forgery proceedings
Counterfeit Blanche Hoschedé Monet painting helps expose forgery network
A reported counterfeit of Pont à Giverny helped investigators uncover a network suspected of selling hundreds of counterfeit paintings. The report describes an investigation.
Restitution reports
All four paintings from the Bührle robbery returned
Zurich authorities confirmed the return of works by Cézanne, Degas, Monet and Van Gogh stolen in 2008, following cooperation with Serbia.
Recovery reports
Claude Monet’s Beach in Pourville recovered in Poland
Polish police announced the recovery on 12 January 2010 of Claude Monet’s Beach in Pourville. The painting had been stolen from Poznań’s National Museum in 2000 and replaced with a copy. A suspect was arrested; this report does not establish a conviction.
Legal disputes
Guilty plea in Nice museum four-painting theft case
Bernard Ternus pleaded guilty to a conspiracy involving stolen Monet, Sisley and Brueghel paintings taken in the August 2007 robbery.
Theft reports
Dalí, Matisse, Monet and Picasso works stolen from Rio museum
A report following the 24 February 2006 Chácara do Céu Museum robbery described the arrest of a driver suspected of assisting. Works by Salvador Dalí, Henri Matisse, Claude Monet and Pablo Picasso were stolen. The suspect’s arrest was not a conviction.
Recovery reports
Monet’s Impression, Sunrise stolen from the Marmottan
Monet’s Impression, Sunrise was among nine works stolen from the Musée Marmottan in 1985. The works were recovered in 1990.