Art restitution

Melchior Geldorp portrait returned to the National Museum in Warsaw

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Melchior Geldorp portrait returned to the National Museum in Warsaw
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The National Museum in Warsaw received Melchior Geldorp’s seventeenth-century Portrait of a Lady, lost from its collection during World War II. U.S. Homeland Security Investigations located and secured the painting in Los Angeles in 2016. The photograph shows the painting at the Warsaw ceremony.

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

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