A judge in the US has ruled that a Renoir painting bought in a Virginia flea market for just $7 in 2009, which turned out to have been stolen from the Baltimore Museum of Art in the 1950s, must be returned.
 Renoir was one of the pioneers of impressionism |
The work, titled On the Shore of the Seine, was painted in 1879 and has been valued at $22,000. The FBI seized it in 2012 shortly after it was consigned to auction.
Last year a stolen Renoir was auctioned at Sotheby's London for £1m ($1.6m).
We have this handwritten letter from Renoir to his friend and patron Madame Marguerite Charpentier for sale.
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