The painting shows a girl in a bonnet and her younger brother staring across the Normandy coast toward an unknown horizon. The artwork was acquired in Paris for Adolf Hitler, one of countless works swept up in the Nazi plunder. In May, the piece went on permanent display in a new room at the city’s Musée d’Orsay as part of France’s reckoning with Nazi-era looting. The gallery is given over to the orphaned masterpieces of the Nazi era — more than 2,000 works stolen and never claimed. The state holds them in trust for heirs who may yet come forward. The museum holds 13 of such works, including that pictured by Belgian artist Alfred Stevens.

Included in the display are works by Degas, Renoir, Cézanne and Rodin, appropriated from Jewish collectors and intended for the private collections of Hitler and his officers, also a museum of art that was never built. The works were discovered by an allied group known as the Monuments Men, whose sole duty was to recover stolen art.

According to Francois Blanchetiére, the Orsay’s co-curator of the gallery, “The consequences of the Holocaust must be repaired. There is no statute of limitations on these crimes.”