THE ARCHIVE BY COUNTRY
Published reports from our archive, newest first.
A country may refer to the theft, recovery, return or legal proceedings. A case can be linked to more than one country.
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Image: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Public domain. Image source ↗
The Nazis confiscated the panel from André Seligmann in 1940. It was recovered in Berchtesgaden, returned to France in 1946 and restituted to the Seligmann heirs in 1999.
Case diagram by ArtTraceX · Germany → France · REC 161 · MNR 1000. Image source ↗
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.
Claude Monet, Impression, Sunrise, Musée Marmottan Monet. Public domain. Image source ↗
Monet’s Impression, Sunrise was among nine works stolen from the Musée Marmottan in 1985. The works were recovered in 1990.
Image: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Public domain. Image source ↗
Nazi authorities seized Jan van der Heyden’s east view of Huis ten Bosch from Baron Karl Neuman in Paris. The Met records its return to Neuman by 1947.
Image: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Public domain. Image source ↗
The Nazi ERR confiscated the self-portrait from the David-Weill collection. It was recovered at Alt Aussee and returned to France in 1946, with David-Weill recorded as the presumed owner.
Image: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Public domain. Image source ↗
The painting was recovered in Berchtesgaden and returned to France on 18 April 1946. It was handed back to the Levy de Benzion family on 10 May 1946.
Case diagram by ArtTraceX · ERR exchange 23 · View of Paris · 47 × 38 cm. Image source ↗
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.
Case diagram by ArtTraceX · ERR exchange 16 · Alexander von Frey. Image source ↗
ERR exchange 16 with Alexander von Frey lists this signed oil measuring 41 × 54 cm and dated 1872. Its present location remains unverified.
Case diagram by ArtTraceX · ERR exchange 14 · Two Pissarro paintings. Image source ↗
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.
Context photograph: the Salle des Martyrs at the Jeu de Paume, Paris, circa 1940, where the ERR held looted art. Wikimedia Commons · PDM 1.0. Image source ↗
A 1945 investigation lists the Pissarro among works exchanged with Gustav Rochlitz in Paris. Its original collection and present location remain unverified.
