The National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) has returned Lady with a Fan, a painting by Gerard ter Borch, to the heirs of a Jewish family from whom it was seized during the Nazi regime.

The restitution occurred without a public announcement from the museum. The painting was removed from the NGV’s online catalogue in early September 2025. The only public record of its return emerged weeks later through an update on Germany’s Lost Art Database. The case was brought to public attention by Jason Schulman, a 2025 Fulbright Scholar to Australia who has spent years studying potentially Nazi-looted art.

Lady With a Fan was one work of a larger collection owned by the Bromberg family and reportedly sold to art dealer Allen Loebl in 1938, with the works then being scattered across the world. It was acquired by the NGV in 1945.