Art restitution

A Saxon powder flask returned to the Rothschild heirs

Vienna, Austria · Source report date:

Image: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Public domain.
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Nazi authorities seized the flask from Baron Alphonse Mayer Rothschild’s collection in Vienna in 1938. Austria returned it to his heirs in 1949.

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Rembrandt, Self-Portrait (1630), Nationalmuseum, Stockholm

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