University of Oklahoma Returns Nazi-Looted Pissarro Painting to Heir
- February 25, 2016 15:42
Under a new settlement, the ownership of impressionist Camille Pissarro's 1886 painting 'Shepherdess Bringing in Sheep' will be transferred from the Universtiy of Oklahoma to Léone Meyer, a French Holocaust survivor whose father owned the painting when it was stolen by the Nazis.
Going forward, the painting - valued in its last appraisal at $1.5million - will split its time being displayed at the university's Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art in Norman and a museum in France.
![Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577–1640), After Titian (Tiziano Vecelli) (Italian [Venetian], c. 1488–1576), Rape of Europa, 1628–29. Oil on canvas, 71 7/8 x 79 3/8 in.](/images/c/e2/2e/Jan20_Rape_of_Europa100x100_c.jpg "Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577–1640), After Titian (Tiziano Vecelli) (Italian [Venetian], c. 1488–1576), Rape of Europa, 1628–29. Oil on canvas, 71 7/8 x 79 3/8 in.")
