Great Regulars: [Patricia Lochridge Hartwell] saw the liberation

of Dachau in 1945. It must have been soon after this that she was offered by the American forces one of the paintings they had found in various Nazi caches. She chose the Cranach and was able to take it home with her to the States.

When this story was published in 2006, it was guessed that the painting could have come from Hermann Goering's collection.

from James Fenton: The Guardian: Purloined pictures

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