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A Nazi-looted Courbet painting held by Cambridge's Fitzwilliam Museum will be returned to its original owners.

Gustave Courbet’s La Ronde Enfantine will be given to heirs of Robert Bing after it was seized from his occupied Paris flat in 1941

This is but the first chapter of what is planned to be a gradual exploration of roughly 20,000 rescued artworks

In 1942, Dr. Adele Kibre—dark-haired, wicked-eyed, a medievalist by training—began work as an overseas agent for the Interdepartmental Committee for the Acquisition of Foreign Publications. This Committee was a branch of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS): the wartime predecessor to the CIA, which sought to acquire documents in Europe that the Allies could use to develop intelligence and plan covert operations. Kibre, a scholar, was now also a spy. Kibre was an ideal fit for the job. After receiving a PhD in medieval linguistics (University of Chicago, 1930), she had spent almost a de...

for features, exclusive extracts, author interviews and art world recommendations sent straight to your inbox As a tall, young, athletic SS officer with fluent French and a doctorate in art history, Bruno Lohse captured Hermann Göring’s attention during one of his visits to the Jeu de Paume art gallery in Paris, where the Reichsmarschall would quaff champagne and select paintings looted from French Jews. The art would then be transported by Göring’s private train to his country estate outside Berlin. Lohse became Göring’s agent in Paris, charged with helping Adolf Hitler’s number ...