Germany says it will return a painting stolen by Nazi troops from the Uffizi Gallery in the Italian city of Florence in 1943.
Vase of Flowers, estimated to be worth millions of euros, has been in the hands of a German family.
In January Uffizi head Eike Schmidt said Germany had a “moral duty” to help bring it back to the museum.
Dutch master Jan van Huysum painted the still life and it was first displayed in Florence in 1824.
German troops stole the work as they retreated north during World War Two.
Why did it take so long to return?
The painting resurfaced in 1991 following German reunification, but efforts to return it failed.
The unidentified family had demanded up to €2m for the painting, reports said, while the German authorities had cited a statute of limitations on crimes more than 30 years old that it said prevented it from intervening.
But after Mr Eiche's call for the painting's return, the German government contacted the descendants of the Nazi soldier who took it.
