of works stored in the palace had gone missing. Many of these, including Lamentation, would later re-emerge in Mariefred, Sweden as belonging to the Swedish businessman Sigfrid Häggberg. According to his family, however, Häggberg had not directly participated in the theft and was merely safekeeping the painting on behalf of an unidentified individual. After his death in 1963, the painting was sold to the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm at an auction in 1970 for SEK4,000 (~US$3,700 in 2023 when adjusted for inflation) and placed in the museum's permanent collection. Restitution to Poland In 2020, following an extensive and lengthy investigation by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage in Poland, the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm recommended that Lamentation be restituted to the National Museum in Wrocław. In 2022, the painting was officially returned. According to the Susanna Pettersson, the Director General of the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm, the case illustrated the importance of investing in "provenance research and restitution." References Renaissance art Painting German Renaissance painters German Renaissance Christian art Reformation in Germany Art crime