The United States has returned a long-missing work of art to France, the third such handover in little more than a year.
The head of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement turned over to the French ambassador what the embassy described as a rare, historic and precious work by Impressionist Camille Pissarro titled The Fish Market. It had been taken in 1981 from the Faure Museum in Aix-les-Bains.
In returning The Fish Market, the director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, John Morton, said his agency's cultural property, art and antiquities unit was set up to identify, investigate and return cultural treasures such as the stolen painting to their rightful owners and countries of origin.
The head of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement turned over to the French ambassador what the embassy described as a rare, historic and precious work by Impressionist Camille Pissarro titled The Fish Market. It had been taken in 1981 from the Faure Museum in Aix-les-Bains.
In returning The Fish Market, the director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, John Morton, said his agency's cultural property, art and antiquities unit was set up to identify, investigate and return cultural treasures such as the stolen painting to their rightful owners and countries of origin.
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