New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art said a 1597 painting by Peter Paul Rubens had not been looted by the Nazis. The museum cited a 76-year-old article in an authoritative German art journal as proof that the Rubens portrait belonged to a New Jersey man nearly a decade before the Nazis came to power.
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