Last May, a painting stolen by a Nazi soldier from the Lubomirski Palace during World War II was repatriated to Poland. The painting, attributed to Alessandro Turchi, a 17th-century Italian artist, was pulled from a Tokyo auction after it was spotted by a Polish official.
Last October, the F.B.I.’s art-crime team handed a painting by Johann Franz Nepomuk Lauterer, an 18th-century Viennese artist, over to the German Consulate in Chicago. An American soldier had stolen the painting from the Bavarian State Painting Collections, in Munich, in the 1940s.
