Editing Thomas Couture (section)

== Nazi-looted art in the Gurlitt collection ==
Couture’s ''Portrait of a Seated Woman'', (c.1850-1855), discovered in the [[Gurlitt Collection|Gurlitt trove]], was identified as having belonged to [[Georges Mandel]] from a small hole in the canvas. It was restituted to Mandel's heirs in 2019.<ref name = Nazi-1>{{Cite web |date=2020-09-24 |title=Nazi-Looted Thomas Couture Painting Returned to Heirs of French Jewish Leader Georges Mandel - Artsy News |url=https://www.artsy.net/news/artsy-editorial-nazi-looted-painting-cornelius-gurlitt-trove-returned-jewish-politicians-heirs |access-date=2022-02-20 |website= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200924061627/https://www.artsy.net/news/artsy-editorial-nazi-looted-painting-cornelius-gurlitt-trove-returned-jewish-politicians-heirs |archive-date=24 September 2020 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name = Nazi-2>{{Cite web|title=Germany returns Nazi-looted work to French Jewish collector's heirs|url=https://lootedart.com/news.php?r=TFYPJN323241|access-date=2022-02-20|website=lootedart.com|quote=The portrait of a seated woman by 19th-century French painter Thomas Couture had been on display in a spectacular collection hoarded by Cornelius Gurlitt, the son of a Nazi-era art dealer. German Culture Minister Monika Gruetters presented the work to relatives of Mandel -- who was executed by French fascists near Paris in 1944 -- in a ceremony at the Martin Gropius Bau museum in Berlin.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=The Void at the Heart of 'Gurlitt: Status Report' |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/19/arts/design/the-void-at-the-heart-of-gurlitt-status-report.html |website=New York Times}}</ref>