A work of art held in the National Gallery of Victoria collection for 80 years has been returned to the heirs of a Jewish couple who sold the painting before fleeing Nazi Germany in the late 1930s.

The 16th-century painting Lady With a Fan by Gerard ter Borch has been returned to the heirs of Henry and Herta Bromberg.

The ownership of the painting has been contested since 2004, when Juan Carlos Emden, grandson of Jewish retail magnate Max Emden, approached the NGV with claims that Lady With a Fan had been looted . In 2022 The Australian reported that Emden had revived the claim to Lady With a Fan .

The Lost Art Database has been updated with an entry saying that the painting has been restituted to Bromberg’s heirs as of 2025. It is unclear whether the claims by the Emden he

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