Art restitution

Celle returns a forest landscape from the Alphons Jaffé collection

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Context photograph · Bomann Museum, the institution that returned the forest landscape · Hombre / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0 · resized / redimensionnée
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A forest landscape formerly attributed to Simon de Vlieger was seized from a loan in Leiden and purchased at auction in 1943. The Bomann Museum returned it to the Jaffé heirs in 2018.

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

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