Due Diligence, Provenance Research, and the Acquisition Process at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Abstract

far-reaching nature of these resolved claims, the MFA has deaccessioned, or officially removed from its collection: an ancient bronze statuette, which had been stolen from the Mus6e de la Chartreuse in Douai, France in 1901; a marble torso of Weary Herakles, in response to claims that it had been looted from Turkish soil; a medieval embroidery that had been taken from the Diocesan Museum in Trent, Italy, during World War II; thirteen unprovenanced classical antiquities for repatriation to the Republic of Italy; and a 15 th-century painting of the Madonna and Child, plundered from a home in Warsaw during the 1940s.'The MFA's most widely-publicized restitution occurred in 1971, after a small panel painting, optimistically attributed to Raphael, had been brought into the

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