The Louvre wants to return some paintings to their rightful owners

The Louvre has agreed to display in its permanent collections thirty-one works that have hitherto remained in storage at the famous Parisian museum: these are part of a large series of paintings, some 290 in number, that were allegedly stolen from private Jewish collectors by the Nazi regime.

The works in question are paintings by Eugène Delacroix, François Boucher, and Théodore Rousseau and will be displayed with the intent of finding the heirs of their rightful owners. The Louvre will dedicate two rooms to the aforementioned works.

Sebastien Allard, head of paintings at the museum, said, “These works do not belong to us, often in the past museums have passed as thieves, but we are not trying to appropriate them. The majority of the recovered artworks were stolen from Jewish families. There is a possibility that the heirs will recognize them, claim them, and officially demand their return.”

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The Louvre wants to return some paintings to their rightful owners

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