A photograph has revealed a masterpiece owned by the National Gallery once hung in Adolf Hitler’s flat in Munich, where he entertained his mistress Eva Braun.
The 16th-century Renaissance work Cupid Complaining to Venus is captured hanging in the living room of Hitler’s apartment in the photo.
Painted by German artist Lucas Cranach the Elder, the artwork was bought by the National Gallery in 1963 from an American art dealer, Abris Silberman.
The dealer from New York told the gallery it had been bought at an auction in 1909 and then inherited by its then-owner.
However its true history has since been uncovered. Instead
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