JAN FRANSE VERZIJL – “YOUNG MAN AS BACCHUS”

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The FBI returned a Nazi-looted painting to officials of the Montreal-based foundation named for the German Jewish art dealer whose gallery once owned it.

The painting “Young Man as Bacchus”, by Jan Franse Verzijl (1599-1647), was the latest tracked down since 2002 as part of the Max Stern Art Restitution Project. Stern, who died in 1987, saw scores of artworks confiscated and sold off by the Nazis from his gallery in Düsseldorf before he fled to Canada in the mid-1930s.

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