Art restitution

Warsaw revisits recovery of Houdon’s marble bust of Diana

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Jean-Antoine Houdon, Bust of Diana, Royal Łazienki Museum, Warsaw. Photo: Аимаина хикари / Wikimedia Commons · CC0.
Jean-Antoine Houdon, Bust of Diana, Royal Łazienki Museum, Warsaw. Photo: Аимаина хикари / Wikimedia Commons · CC0. Image source ↗
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A Polish Ministry of Culture exhibition traced the bust from the royal collection through wartime removal to its identification at a Vienna auction. It returned to the Łazienki collection in November 2015.

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