The daughter-in-law of noted Jewish art dealer Jacques Goudstikker was awarded 1 million euros ($1.43 million) for a fragment of a painting looted by Hermann Goering.

The City of Hague agreed to the amount in order to keep the reunited parts of “The Wedding Night of Tobias and Sarah,” by Jan Steen, in the Bredius Museum in The Hague. The right side of the painting, depicting the Archangel Raphael, was in the collection of The Hague, and Goudstikker owned the left side before World War II.

Restorers put the painting together in 1996 after art historians made the connection between the two fragments. It may be part of even larger painting.

In the face of the German invasion, Goudstikker (1897-1940) escaped Amsterdam in 1940 with his wife and child. He died on the cargo boat's crossing and his gallery was looted by Hitler's right-hand man, Goering, who set up his own country home with the stolen art.

Goudstikker is thought to have left behind about 1,400 artworks. When he died, an inventory was found in his pocket, but it wasn't until 1997, after the deaths of the dealer's wife and son that his daughter-in-law, Marei von Saher, was given any headway with pursuing the collection.

In 2006, the Dutch government returned 202 works from the national collection to Goudstikker’s sole heir, von Saher, who lives in Greenwich, Connecticut. The works were estimated at €56 million to €84 million ($79 million to $110 million).

Forty of the reclaimed paintings, dating from the Renaissance through 19th century, were part of a traveling exhibition in the U.S. from March 2009 through March 2011. Highlights included Jan Steen’s dramatic Sacrifice of Iphigenia of 1671, landscapes by Salomon van Ruysdael, a rare early marine painting by Salomon’s nephew Jacob van Ruisdael, and Jan van der Heyden’s View of Nyenrode Castle on the Vecht – the country estate that Goudstikker himself owned and opened to the public each summer in the 1930s.

Many works from the collection are still missing, or have not been given up by museums. The Getty Museum was the first U.S. institution to return one of Goudstikker's paintings. In March 2011, the Getty agreed to return to von Saher the painting "Landscape With Cottage and Figures," circa 1640, by Pieter Molijn.

One of the most hotly-disputed of Goudstikker's artworks is the Norton Simon Museum's paired "Adam and Eve" paintings by Lucas Cranach the Elder, appraised at $24 million. Von Saher has a federal lawsuit going for their reclamation.

At a Christie's sale some 128 of the reclaimed artworks were offered in 2007. The collection netted $20.78 million for 87 works sold at auction, offsetting von Saher's costs for the restitution which includes research and lawyers' fees,