The family of Lilly Cassirer has sought the return of Camille Pissarro’s “Rue St. Honoré ... that has long argued it can lay claim under Spanish law to the 1897 oil painting, according to The ...

The contentious piece of art is Camille Pissarro’s 1897 oil canvas “Rue Saint-Honoré, in the afternoon. Effect of rain", currently hanging in the Thyssen-Bornemisza museum in Madrid.

The justices overturned a lower-court ruling awarding Camille Pissarro’s “Rue St. Honoré ... can lay claim under Spanish law to the 1897 oil painting. The family of Lilly Cassirer has ...

And no one should be able to keep stolen property.” The oil painting was bought directly from Camille Pissarro by German Jewish industrialist and art collector Julius Cassirer, who passed it ...