"Looted" Dutch Paintings
If the paintings were taken between 1795-1800, why blame Napoleon for "taking" them.
“Slowly, successively all of the countries that were robbed by Napoleon got things back,” she said. “But it was pretty tricky: the personnel of the Louvre had taken away all of the ladders to make it extra difficult to reach the paintings....Finally, they succeeded in getting back two-thirds of the paintings but 70 of them still hang in France."
48 Views
That the art wasn't returned after 1815 seems like a issue that should have been with the Bourbon's. Then there's the article title, "...looted from the Dutch by Napoleon."