From the museum website, 2 March 2009
This exhibition presents rare Old Master paintings drawn from the collection of Jacques Goudstikker, one of the preeminent art dealers in Amsterdam prior to World War II. In 1940, Goudstikker was forced to flee war-torn Europe with his family, yet died in a tragic accident while escaping the Nazi invasion. He left behind approximately 1,400 works of art in his gallery, which were looted by Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering. After years of unsuccessful attempts to recover these paintings, his family recently reclaimed 200 paintings from the Dutch government. Forty of the finest piecesāincluding Dutch Old Master works and Italian and Northern Renaissance paintingsāhave been selected for a touring exhibition that will showcase the eye of Jacques Goudstikker and emphasize the importance of both the artworks and their historic restitution. Photographs and documents, including Goudstikkerās gallery inventory notebook, will illuminate Goudstikkerās fascinating story.