University of Oklahoma, French woman to cede ownership of Nazi-looted painting

A Nazi-looted painting will rotate back to a Norman museum after months of legal conflict between the University of Oklahoma and a Holocaust survivor whose family’s art collection was stolen during World War II.

Leone Meyer, 81, has agreed to cede her title, interests and all standing in connection to the 1886 Camille Pissarro painting “Shepherdess Bringing in Sheep” to the university and the OU Foundation.

In turn, OU and its foundation have agreed to give up ownership of the artwork in the future to a French public institution or the U.S. Art in Embassies program. The university has not decided yet where it will transfer the painting’s title.

“Shepherdess Bringing in Sheep” is scheduled to return to Norman on July 16 after spending five years in Paris at the Musee d’Orsay.

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French artist Camille Pissarro's 1886 painting "Berg re Rentrant des Moutons" (Shepherdess Bringing in Sheep) will return in July to the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art on the University of Oklahoma's Norman campus. The German Army stole the painting from a Jewish family in 1941 during the Nazi occupation of France.