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“Flea Market Renoir” Possibly Taken from Baltimore Museum Heads to Court

Posted in Civil Forfeiture, Museums

The 1879 Pierre-Auguste Renoir painting entitled “Paysage Bords de Seine” that was discovered at a Virgina flea market, but which may also have been stolen from the Baltimore Museum of Art more than sixty years ago, is now the subject of a federal court case in Alexandria, Virginia.  The United States has seized the painting and… Continue Reading