A stolen Brueghel found by an art journalist and Indiana Jones

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A stolen Brueghel found by an art journalist and Indiana Jones

A Brueghel stolen 50 years ago, found thanks to a journalist and Arthur Brand aka "Indiana Jones de l'art". In 1974, the National Museum of Gdańsk, Poland, was the scene of a spectacular burglary. Among the missing works, a circular painting by Pieter Brueghel the Younger, a woman wearing embers, seemed to be volatilized. The work, with a diameter of 17 centimetres, illustrated a Dutch proverb: Never believe a person who carries water in one han…