The paintings had belonged to art dealer Jacques Goudstikker, a gallery owner who fled the advancing Nazis. “Goudstikker abandoned 1,400 artworks when he escaped the Nazi invasion of the Netherlands in 1940. He took with him a black notebook recording over 1,000 of the pictures. Hermann Goering looted the gallery weeks later. The paintings were recovered from Germany after the war and incorporated into the Dutch National Art Collection.