Art restitution

The 1994 return of two works from Germany to France

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Germany returned a group of works to France in 1994, including a Pissarro pastel from the Georges Couturat collection and a landscape now attributed to an anonymous artist in Courbet’s circle. The museum records document repatriation to France.

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Art restitutionGustave Courbet

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

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