A Tiny Painting's Long Road Home | Boston News

A tiny 16th-century painting, “Landscape with Burning City,” is caught in a decades-long legal tug-of-war over wartime looted art. Originally stolen from Jewish owners during WWII and hidden in Hermann Göring’s collection, it resurfaced in 1946 when the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston acquired it through murky paperwork. Now, descendants of the original owners are pushing for its return as part of a larger effort to reclaim over 2,000 artworks from the Koenigs Collection. While Harvard recently returned a Rembrandt drawing in a similar case, the MFA remains cautious, calling itself a custodian since 1946 and watching how other restitution cases unfold — all while knowing this small canvas holds a fiery past and tangled ownership history. Listen in comfort:Get a discount on a Soli Pillow: http://solipillow.com/discount/dnn. Advertise on DNN:[email protected] This is an automated, high-level news summary based on public reporting.Report issues to [email protected]. View sources & latest updates:https://sources.thednn.ai/7822c638ce630be5