Nicolas Rousseau painting returned by son of Nazi

The Rousseau painting was returned last year by Peter Forner, the son of the Nazi who had stolen it in 1944 ALAMY. A 19th century oil painting has gone on show in Verdun, France, with the hope of tracing its rightful owners after it was returned by the son of the wartime German serviceman who stole it in France. The small bucolic scene by Nicolas Rousseau, a member of the Barbizon school, was handed over in a ceremony at the French embassy in Berlin to the World Peace Centre at Verdun, a memorial at the site of France’s biggest world war one battle.