Looted Nazi art in National Gallery?
Updated on 26 November 2006
Could a National Gallery painting have originally been looted by the Nazis?
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It's a priceless masterpiece worth millions of pounds. But now its emerged one of the National gallery's finest artworks may have originally been looted by the Nazis.
"Cupid Complaining to Venus", by Lucas Cranach was bought by the National Gallery in the early 60s.
Now the Gallery has admitted its previous owner acquired it from a warehouse full of Nazi treasures in Germany in 1945 - much of which had been stolen from Jewish owners.
If proven, it would be the first work of art in a British public collection to have come from Nazi loot.
Our arts correspondent Nick Glass reports.
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