article_snippet: Swiss records show Meyer's father in Paris had owned the painting.
article_snippet: The Weitzenhoffers bought the painting from a New York gallery in 1956.
article_snippet: It appears that everyone involved with this case agrees that `La Bergere' was the property of my client's father prior to the Nazi occupation of France, which we have asserted since the complaint was filed,' Pierre Ciric, a lawyer for Meyer said.
highlights_snippet: Swiss records show Meyer's father, Raoul Meyer,  had owned the painting in Paris .