Artworks stolen in Nazi-occupied Paris donated to the Louvre

"Food, Fruit and Glass on a Table" by Peter Binoit, painted between 1600 and 1625. The painting was stolen from its Jewish owners in occupied Paris in 1944 and now hangs in the Louvre Museum. © Departement des Peintures, Musée du Louvre

Eighty years after they were looted from a Jewish family during the Nazi Occupation of France, two 17th-century still-life paintings have been returned to the heirs of their rightful owners – who have donated them to the Louvre Museum in Paris.

The two paintings, "Still Life with Ham" by Dutch artist Floris van Schooten and "Food, Fruit and Glass on a Table" by Peter Binoit of Germany, are now displayed alongside historical documents giving information on the Javals – the family that owned them until 1944.