Renoir's return: How a Canadian non-profit emancipated looted artwork

A Toronto foundation has helped return a Renoir artwork allegedly looted by the Nazis to the Musée d’Orsay, after a 90-year journey as dramatic as the painting itself.

Le Jugement de Pâris, a 1908 sanguine sketch of a classic cultural myth, was loaned to the Parisian museum by Canadian non-profit EJB Steinberg Arts Foundation, which bought the artwork in 2023.

“From what I understand, this painting has a complicated history, but one that is all too common for many great European...