Searching for Nazi Fingerprints: A Q&A With MFA Boston Curator Victoria Reed on Investigating Wartime Provenances -
Late last month, Boston'sMuseum of Fine Artsmade headlines when it voluntarily compensated the heirs of a Jewish art dealer for a 17th-century Dutch portrait by Eglon van der Neer that it discovered had been stolen by the Nazis. Behind the rare preemptive compensation was Victoria S. Reed, a woman with an even rarer job: curator for provenance.