Marble bustrecovered after Nazi looting

An 18th-century marble bust of the goddess Diana which was looted by the Nazis in 1940 has been returned to Warsaw from Vienna, where it recently surfaced at an auction house.

The return of the sculpture by French master Jean-Antoine Houdon, valued at €250,000, is the latest development in Poland’s long effort to retrieve tens of thousands of works of art looted from museums and private collections in the nation’s tumultuous history, most recently during the Second World War.

Poland has listed 63,000 works of art as missing.