Boy Leading a Horse

Jeune garçon au cheval is an early painting by Pablo Picasso. An example of Picasso's Rose Period, he painted it in 1906 in Paris. The painting was first owned by Ambroise Vollard. It then passed through the hands of numerous people through the years: Julius Schoeps, director of the Moses Mendelssohn institute for European Jewish studies on the University of Potsdam near Berlin, sued as speaker of the Mendelssohn-Bartholdy heirs, sued the Museum in 2007 for the painting, and Jed S. Rakoff ruled that Mendelssohn-Bartholdy had been forced to sell the painting by the Nazi Party. The dispute, however, ended up being settled out of court in 2009, with the museum retaining the work.