French painting, stolen from museum during WWI, is returned
Nearly a century after it was stolen from a French museum during World War I, a painting recovered by U.S. authorities was returned to the French on Thursday.
“Une Fille de Pecheur,” or "A Fisherman’s Daughter," by Jules Breton was taken from a museum in the northern French city of Douai by German troops in 1918. It was commissioned by the city in 1875.
A French museum curator received word in 2000 that the painting was being put up for auction by an art gallery in Zurich, Switzerland, said a spokeswoman at the French Embassy in Washington. The artwork -- valued at $150,000, according to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which played a key role in the recovery -- then became the subject of legal wrangling.
It turned up in New York, where Daphne Alazraki, owner of Daphne Alazraki Fine Art, was preparing to put it up for auction when she was contacted last year by U.S. authorities. Alazraki, who had purchased a share of the painting from an American dealer, said by phone Thursday that she and an investor co-owner agreed to donate the painting to the French museum.
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