Poland retrieves its lost art

During WW2, but not only, Poland lost a lot of precious exhibits. Some of them were destroyed irrevocably, some looted by invaders. The latter ones are regularly found in museums or at auctions all over the world - in such cases Polish diplomacy takes action and retrieves the item.

The latest exhibit which has just returned to Poland is the hunting rifle of Count Wincenty Krasiński from the pre-war Krasiński Museum of Ordinances in Warsaw. It was looted by Nazis after the Warsaw Uprising. The rifle was recovered by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage under an agreement with The Cleveland Museum of Art in the US.

It is widely believed the rifle was a gift from Napoleon Bonaparte - it is a richly decorated hunting weapon made at the beginning of the 19th century in the workshop of the famous French gunsmith Jean Lepage.

Full story here:
artsherlock.pl/2020/10/25/polska-strata-wojenna-strzelba-ofiarowana-przez-napoleona-wincentemu-krasinskiemu-w-zbiorach-muzealnych-w-usa/

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Very interesting. They're beautiful. It's nice to hear that such precious artefacts are found.

A curious case with a Polish book which is said to have been looted from a Polish library during WW2.
thefirstnews.com/article/macron-accused-of-giving-pope-book-looted-from-poland-during-wwii-33991

During a private audience, Macron gifted the head of the Church the first French edition of Immanuel Kant's late 18th-century book Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch.

However, when a Vatican correspondent for French newspaper Le Croix Loup Besmond de Senneville posted a photo of the inside front cover, eagled-eyed Internet users noticed a clearly identifiable stamp of the Czytelnia Akademicka, which was a reading union organised by students from the University of Lwów, which was then part of Poland.

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Macron's grandpa borrowed this book and forgot to return it?

Lol :):):) hahaha