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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Italy’s conservation institute records the 2017 recovery in Morocco of the Guercino painting stolen in Modena in 2014. It was entrusted to the institute in judicial custody on 15 September 2017 for conservation. This is not confirmation of final handover to its owner.
The Culture Ministry confirmed the return of works stolen in Verona in November 2015 and recovered in Ukraine in 2016.
Illuminated manuscript fragment returned in the same ceremony as the Carelli painting. Image source ↗
Italy’s foreign ministry reported a handover of a nineteenth-century Carelli painting and fourteenth-century illuminated manuscript material. The painting had been stolen in Naples in 2001 and traced through a Pennsylvania auction.
Torlonia Peplophoros. Photo: Manuelarosi, CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/); resized and converted to WebP. Image source ↗
The FBI presented the Roman marble statue to Italian officials after forfeiture proceedings. It had been stolen from Villa Torlonia in Rome in November 1983 and later surfaced in New York.
Vincent van Gogh, View of the Sea at Scheveningen, one of the two recovered paintings. Image source ↗
Italian police recovered View of the Sea at Scheveningen and Congregation Leaving the Reformed Church in Nuenen, stolen from the Van Gogh Museum in 2002. Their return date was not yet settled at publication. The 2019 return to display is covered separately.
Pierre Bonnard, La femme aux deux fauteuils, one of the recovered paintings. Image source ↗
Italian authorities revealed the recovery of paintings by Paul Gauguin and Pierre Bonnard stolen in London in the 1970s. The works had passed through a railway lost-property sale and were found in a private purchaser’s home.
Photo: Antonio Pignato. Resized for display. Image source ↗
The Getty returned the ancient statue known as the Goddess of Morgantina to Italy in 2011. It went on display at the archaeological museum in Aidone, Sicily.
The University of Geneva’s Art-Law Centre records the 11 November 2010 handover of the twelfth-century manuscript by the British Library to Benevento’s cathedral chapter.
Photo: Jaime Ardiles-Arce. Public domain. Image source ↗
The Metropolitan Museum of Art returned the Euphronios krater to Italy in January 2008 under a negotiated agreement. Italy lent other ancient vases to the museum as part of the arrangement.
