Recovered art

Duyster’s Le Buveur located in Switzerland; return still pending

Orléans, France / Lucerne, Switzerland · Source report date:

Duyster’s Le Buveur, showing a seated man raising a glass and holding a jug.
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Le Journal des Arts reports that Willem Cornelisz Duyster’s Le Buveur, stolen from Orléans’s Musée Paul Fourché in 1940, was identified in a Lucerne auction catalogue. The sale was stopped and the holder agreed to return it. Restitution was expected within weeks and was not yet completed at publication.

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Individual artwork identification details have not yet been documented in this record. Missing specifications are not inferred from the photograph or report headline.

Not documented in this record: object type · materials & technique · measurements · inscriptions & markings · distinguishing features · artwork title · maker / attribution · creation date / period · subject.

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.

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

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