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

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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