A long legal battle over a Pissarro painting in an American museum collection was ended by a French woman in her 80s whose adoptive parents owned the work until Nazi occupation. Léone-Noëlle Meyer found out in 2012 that her family's Nazi-looted painting was held in the University of Oklahoma's Fred Jones Jr Museum, but the statute of limitations for her to reclaim it had expired, sparking legal wrangling for almost a decade. A US court said she had violated a settlement agreement .
An American university has won its fight with a French heiress to keep a Camille Pissarro painting stolen from her family by the Nazis. Léone-Noëlle Meyer, 81, says she has ended her struggle with the University of Oklahoma after being threatened with heavy fines if she continued her legal battle. Ms Meyer, a holocaust survivor, had fought for years to recover Pissarro’s La Bergère Rentrant des Moutons but admitted she was left with “no other.