The government placed them in an inventory called the Musées Nationaux Récupération, or MNR, and entrusted them to museums. The Louvre has 807 such paintings.

Head of the paintings department at the Louvre museum, Sebastien Allard, answers reporters next to paintings looted by Nazis during World War II, in Paris, Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2018.

Europe The Louvre is showing Nazi-looted art in a bid to find its owners. Some wonder why it took so long. February 2, 2018 More than 7 years ago Summary ...

PARIS — At first, it is unclear why curators at the Louvre chose to squeeze the 31 paintings into two small rooms. Dutch landscapes sit next to German portraits. Depictions of feasts, Roman ...