''Shepherdess Bringing in the Sheep'' () is a painting by

Camille Pissarro Jacob Abraham Camille Pissarro ( , ; 10 July 1830 – 13 November 1903) was a Danish-French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter born on the island of St Thomas (now in the US Virgin Islands, but then in the Danish West Indies). H ...

from 1886.

Ownership dispute

Looted by the Nazis from

Raoul Meyer Raoul Salomon Meyer, born on 30 June 1892 in Villefranche-sur-Saône and died on 14 June 1970 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, was a French businessman and anti-Nazi resistance fighter who directed the Galeries Lafayette group. Biography Raoul Meyer was the ...

during the

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, the Pissarro painting was the object of a restitution claim by Raoul Meyer after the war against the art dealer Christoph Bernoulli and again decades later by his daughter, Léone-Noëlle Meyer, against the Fred Jones Jr. Museum at the

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. The museum fought the claim. A settlement was reached in 2016 which involved the circulation of the Pissarro between the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art and the

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. The settlement was later called into question and the case landed back in court.

Sources

* Joachim Pissarro et Claire Durand-Ruel Snollaerts, '' Pissarro - Catalogue critique des peintures.Volume III''.

External links

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