The justices said the fate of the Camille Pissarro painting should be decided under the terms of a new California law that protects the rightful heirs of art that was lost during the Holocaust.

Eventually her descendants discovered that the Camille Pissarro painting that Cassirer had owned, “Rue Saint-Honoré, Après-midi, Effet de Pluie,” was hanging on the wall of the Thyssen ...

The contentious piece of art is Camille Pissarro’s 1897 oil canvas “Rue Saint-Honoré, in the afternoon. Effect of rain", currently hanging in the Thyssen-Bornemisza museum in Madrid.

Beverly Cassirer and her husband, Claude Cassirer, are shown at their home in San Diego with a copy of the Pissarro painting stolen by the Nazis. Claude died in 2010 and Beverly in 2020.