“The childish round” will leave the museum of the University of Cambridge. This painting by the painter from Ornans (Doubs) Gustave Courbet looted by the Nazis in 1941 in Paris will be given to the descendants of the legitimate owner, resistance fighter, who died in 1993. Since 1951, the painting has been in the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. Painted around 1862, it depicts children playing in a peaceful wood. But the history of this work is to say the least turbulent.
The Good Faith of the Fitzwilliam Museum
The Spoliation Advisory Panel, a body created in 2000 by the British government,…
