Art restitution

Still life formerly attributed to Chardin returned to museum

Tbilisi, Georgia · Source report date:

Returned Collections exhibition poster, Georgian National Gallery
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The 29 November 2023 report described a still life stolen in Tbilisi in 1994 and returned in 2023 as a Chardin. The museum’s 2024 exhibition text identifies it as a work by an unknown Russian academic artist, acquired in the 1930s under an attribution to Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin.

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Art restitutionJean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin

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

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