Art restitution

Salomon Koninck painting returned to the Schloss heirs

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Salomon Koninck painting returned to the Schloss heirs — artwork or case documentation from the linked image source.
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A Scholar Sharpening His Quill was returned after a civil forfeiture judgment. Looted from the Schloss family during the Nazi era, it resurfaced when a Chilean collector consigned it for sale in New York.

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

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