Cranach work spotted in Hitler's apartment.

This article focuses on the provenance and complex history of Lucas Cranach the Elder’s painting "Cupid complaining to Venus" (1526-27), now owned by London’s National Gallery. The artwork once hung in Adolf Hitler’s private Munich apartment, as confirmed by a previously unpublished early 1940s photograph, but its ownership before Hitler remains unclear. After World War II, American journalist Patricia Lochridge was appointed mayor of Berchtesgaden for a day and selected the painting from a storehouse of recovered art, later smuggling it to the United States. The National Gallery acquired the painting in 1963 from New York dealers who provided false provenance, and ongoing research seeks to determine whether the painting was seized from a Jewish collector or sold under duress during the Nazi era. [Extracted from the article]