It is a small impressionist painting by Camille Pissarro, dating from 1874, rather dark, entitled "La Fileuse", which was the subject of a legal standoff between Meaux (Seine-et-Marne) and Paris.
With on one side, a family of farmers from the small village of Aubepierre-Ozouer-le-Repos, in possession of the canvas worth some 150
000 euros.
And on the other, the Parisian Jean-Jacques Bauer, 92, whose Jewish grandfather, Simon, a collector, based in rue de la Pompe (16th century), had been robbed of 93 paintings in 1943, including 13 by Pissarro, by the Vichy regime under the Nazi boot.
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