Eight decades later, that painting is on display at the Museum of Fine Arts, its provenance finally revealed by an intense research effort by a persistent curator. History decided otherwise, and the painting, its past obscured by postwar events, ended up in private hands, with no hint of the extraordinary story of human struggle it would tell. Among the countless artworks taken by the Nazis during World War II was a humble interior scene by a 17th-century Dutch painter intended to hang in Adolf Hitler’s Führermuseum, the dictator’s unrealized vanity project in Austria meant to house Europe’s most celebrated works...