The Allentown Art Museum is relinquishing a 16th-century portrait attributed to Lucas Cranach the Elder in settlement with the descendants of Henry and Hertha Bromberg.
Max Weintraub, the museum's president, stated that moral imperatives compelled the museum to act when the Bromberg family made their claim regarding the artwork.
Henry Bromberg, who had to flee persecution from Nazi Germany, inherited the portrait and sold artworks to escape before arriving in the U.S. in 1939.
The proceeds from the sale of the Portrait of George the Bearded will be split between the museum and the Bromberg heirs after Christie's auction.
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