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Stolen Virgen de la Leche painting recovered in Lima

San Isidro, Lima, Peru · Source report date:

A specialist examining the framed Virgen de la Leche painting recovered in Lima.
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Infobae reports that Peruvian police recovered Virgen de la Leche, a colonial-era Ayacucho-school painting listed as stolen, in San Isidro. Culture Ministry specialists confirmed its identity; it was seized and taken for conservation assessment. The report does not announce restitution to an owner or a conviction.

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

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