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Introduction to the Metropolitan Museum's Provenance Research Project
Read about ongoing scholarly research investigating the ownership history, or provenance, of paintings and other works of art in the Metropolitan Museum, with recent emphasis on the period of World War II and the issue of Nazi looting.

Providing Information Online
Find out how the museum community is making provenance information more widely available.

View the statement by Philippe de Montebello, Director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, at a Hearing of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Holocaust Assets in the United States, Wednesday, April 12, 2000.

View the following:

•	An alphabetical list, with accompanying images, of European paintings in the Museum's collection having incomplete ownership histories during the era of World War II or that changed hands during those years
•	Maiolica from the Alfred Pringsheim collection
•	Paintings seized by the Nazis and restituted to their rightful owners prior to acquisition by the Metropolitan Museum

Also available is a list of publications on European paintings in the Metropolitan Museum: collection and exhibition catalogues.

Contact Information
If you have information or wish to inquire about any of the works on the Metropolitan's current list of European paintings, please send an email to Provenance.Research@metmuseum.org, or write to the Provenance Research Project, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10028.

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