The Buzz | Painting looted by Nazis is coming to auction in NYC

A 17th century Dutch painting looted by the Nazis and recovered by the Monuments Men is going to auction.
Sotheby’s is offering Gabriel Metsu’s “An Officer Paying Court to a Young Woman” on May 26. The pre-sale estimate is USD6 million to $8 million.
Austria’s Rothschild family had owned it for decades. But due to bureaucratic wrangling after World War II, it wasn’t physically returned to them until 1998.
It was sold at Christie’s in 1999 for $1.2 million.