Supreme Court hears case re: Pissarro painting stolen by Nazis

Camille Pissarro’s 1897 work, ‘Rue Saint-Honore, dans l’apres-midi (Rue Saint-Honore in the Afternoon, Effect of Rain),’ is the subject of a case recently heard in the Supreme Court of the United States. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. The work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office before January 1, 1927
Camille Pissarro’s 1897 work, ‘Rue Saint-Honore, dans l’apres-midi (Rue Saint-Honore in the Afternoon, Effect of Rain),’ is the subject of a case recently heard in the Supreme Court of the United States. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. The work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office before January 1, 1927
Camille Pissarro’s 1897 work, ‘Rue Saint-Honore, dans l’apres-midi (Rue Saint-Honore in the Afternoon, Effect of Rain),’ is the subject of a case recently heard in the Supreme Court of the United States. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. The work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office before January 1, 1927

WASHINGTON (AP) – A California man and a Spanish museum locked in a dispute over a valuable impressionist masterpiece stolen by the Nazis should be able to agree on one thing, Justice Stephen Breyer said January 18 during arguments in the case at the Supreme Court. Can everyone agree that this is a beautiful painting?,” Breyer asked near the end of an hour of arguments. The painting is a streetscape, now worth millions, by French impressionist Camille Pissarro. The case itself is not directly about ownership of the painting but about how to decide the case, which has been going on since 2005. Lower courts had sided with the museum.

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