Brueghel art lost and found

With the help of a well-known art detective and arts magazine journalists, Dutch police say they have cracked the case of the mysterious disappearance of a Brueghel painting from a Polish museum 50 years ago.

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Woman Carrying the Embers, also known as Woman Moving A Bonfire, painted by the Flemish-Dutch master Pieter Brueghel the Younger around 1626, vanished from the National Museum in Gdansk during communist times around 1974.

Its whereabouts sparked numerous rumors - including involvement by the Polish secret service at the time - in a story worthy of a spy novel.

The round painting, measuring just 17cm, was thought to have disappeared forever.