The portrait by a French court painter is one of three displayed in a photo that came to depict the efforts of a U.S. Army unit that tracked legions of looted art.

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Edsel is the founder of the Dallas-based Monuments Men and Women Foundation, which has dedicated itself to uncovering and rescuing art plundered by the Nazis.

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On this episode of DIA Connections, Robert Edsel, author of The Monuments Men, talks about the greatest treasure hunt in history and the scholar soldiers who found civilizations' most important artistic and cultural treasures.

His unit, tasked with safeguarding European art and culture amid the destruction and plunder of war, was dramatized in the film ‘The Monuments Men’

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The initiative aims to build a new generation of officers to preserve cultural treasures in conflict.

Josh Gates hunts for Third Reich secrets as he searches for stolen art in a flooded tunnel complex, tries to decode an officer's diary pointing to tons of plundered Nazi gold and visits the ruins of a city burned to ashes in the final days of WWII.

The museum says they possess it rightfully while grandchildren of a previous owner say it should be returned due to the way it left their heir.