The Mauritshuis in The Hauge, the home of famed Dutch Old Master works by Rembrandt and Vermeer, is returning Jan van Goyen’s painting Fishermen by the Lakeshore (1651) after new research has revealed that the piece was looted by Nazis.

The painting belonged to Jacques Goudstikker, a Jewish art dealer who was fleeing the Netherlands for England on a ship in 1940 during World War II. His dealership in The Hague was taken over by Nazis and 1,113 pieces of artwork were transported to Germany and later sold to Hermann Göring, a powerful figure in the Nazi Party with the title of supreme commander of the air force. The van Goyen was acquired for approximately £6,000 at the time.

Fishermen by the Lakeshore is being handed over to Marei von Saher, the widow of Goudstikker’s only son Eduard. The Dutch Restitutions Committee had advised culture minister Rianne Letschert to return the work.

In a statement, the committee said that the work is considered to have been sold involuntarily because Jacques Goudstikker’s widow, who was the major shareholder in the art dealership, “did not consent to the transactions” and that the “sales were only possible through the appointment of a managing director who was sympathetic to the German buyer [and]… various artworks had already been transported to Germany before the formal purchase agreements were signed. This is consistent with the image of the Nazi authorities as people who robbed or forced sales and then subsequently gave such acts an appearance of legality.”

At the Art Institute of Chicago, a similar case is happening. The museum is giving back Woman With a Fan (1913) by Jean Metzinger to the heirs of Emanuel Lewenstein, a Jewish art collector whose family also fled the Netherlands.