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Archival records revealed that a Snyders painting of the same dimensions, confiscated from the Stern collection, was registered on May 3, 1941, at the Jeu de Paume in Paris, the museum used by Reichsmarschall Hermann Goring as a depot for seized artworks. On June 17, 1941, Goring apparently traded the painting for ''Bacchanale,'' by a minor 19th-century German painter, in a deal with a Berlin-based art dealer, Karl Haberstock. In turn, Haberstock passed the Flemish painting on to Baron von Pollnitz, another art dealer closely linked to the Nazis. Von Pollnitz and Haberstock were arrested at the end of the war, testified against Goring at the Nuremberg trials and were released.The painting was sold in 1968 to Herman Shickman, an American collector, probably through a third party, and in 1990 it was given to the National Gallery for its 50th anniversary, which was the next year. (English)