Gentili

In 1999, an appeals court forced the Louvre to return five paintings to the Gentili family.

Painting at Fla. museum believed stolen by Nazis in WWII 2011

Now, Gentili family members, who live in Europe, will likely file claims of ownership to U.S. authorities.

U.S. Seizes Italian Painting Stolen by Nazis Miriam Jordan 2011

Gentili died in 1940 and his children fled to Canada, spending the duration of the war there and the U.S. Other family members, including Gentili's sister, died in concentration camps.

Painting at Fla. museum believed stolen by Nazis in WWII 2011

Mr. Kennedy said U.S. authorities received a tip from a law-enforcement source abroad that the painting had been taken by Nazi collaborators during World War Two from the French estate of an Italian Jew named Federico Gentili di Giuseppe .

U.S. Seizes Italian Painting Stolen by Nazis Miriam Jordan 2011

The Gentili heirs had approached the Italian museum about the painting but it's not clear what transpired, according to a source close to the U.S. investigation.

U.S. Seizes Italian Painting Stolen by Nazis Miriam Jordan 2011

It is believed that the Nazi-sympathetic French Vichy government seized and sold the work in question, when the Gentili family -- the Jewish family that owned the masterwork -- fled Nazi occupation during the war.

Painting at Fla. museum believed stolen by Nazis in WWII 2011

On June 4, 1914, it was put up for auction in Paris and bought by Gentili.

Painting at Fla. museum believed stolen by Nazis in WWII 2011

In 1999, a French Court of Appeals forced the Louvre museum in Paris to return five paintings to the family and ruled that the auction of works from the Gentili estate in Nazi-occupied France was illegal.

U.S. Seizes Italian Painting Stolen by Nazis Miriam Jordan 2011

François Gentili/INRAP Clues may lie in objects found hidden between the sculptures, including a beer bottle sealed with cement, left, with a roll of paper inside.

Unearthing a Communist Past 2009

Although generally regarded as the founder of international law, Grotius was indebted for much of his work to earlier scholars, especially Gentili.

Grotius, Gassendi, Geulinex, Gioberti Tusar N Mohapatra 2005