Focus on this artwork and analyze the Provenance.
The painting was bought from Pissarro by the German businessman Julius Cassirer in 1897, and it was inherited by his son Fritz Cassirer and then by Fritz's wife Lilly.  She remarried, but in 1939, as a German Jew, she was forced to sell the painting to Jakob Scheidwimmer, an official of the Reichskammer der bildenden Künste, for the low price of 900 ℛ︁ℳ︁ to secure an exit visa, shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War.  The painting was sold at an auction in Berlin in 1943 for 95,000 ℛ︁ℳ︁ and disappeared from public view.  In 1958, a German court awarded Lilly Cassirer Neubauer compensation of DM 120,000, the fair market value for the work.
In 2005, Lilly's grandson Claude Cassirer and other heirs filed a claim to recover the painting.  In January 2011 the Spanish government denied a request by the US ambassador to return the painting, and in 2015 a Spanish court ruled that the painting belonged to the museum.   In April 2019 the United States District Court for the Central District of California ruled that the painting belongs to Fundación Colección Thyssen-Bornemisza, on the basis that the baron and then the museum did not know it was looted art when they bought it.  While that decision was affirmed by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in 2020, in September 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court accepted certiorari to review the Ninth Circuit's decision.  The case was heard on January 18, 2022 and on April 21, 2022, the Supreme Court, disagreeing with the decision of the Ninth Circuit's decision, vacated the judgement. Following the Supreme Court's decision, the case was then returned to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and re-tried. On January 9, 2024, the court ruled in favor of the foundation - stating that ownership of the painting should be decided under Spanish laws, rather than California laws.
United States District Court for the Central District of California Fritz Cassirer DM exit visa Julius Cassirer Jakob Scheidwimmer Reichskammer der bildenden Künste looted art United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit