Art restitution

Courbet’s La Ronde Enfantine and the Robert Bing restitution

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Gustave Courbet, La Ronde Enfantine · Fitzwilliam Museum / Art UK / Wikimedia Commons
Gustave Courbet, La Ronde Enfantine · Fitzwilliam Museum / Art UK / Wikimedia Commons Image source ↗
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The UK panel recommended returning the Courbet seized from Robert Bing’s Paris apartment in 1941. The heirs’ representative records the completed return. The painting likely corresponds to LootedArt’s Forest Scene, whose reported exchange is uncertain.

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Art restitutionGustave Courbet

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

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