A portrait of German composer Johann Sebastian Bach is being returned to his home city after a 250-year odyssey that took it as far as the United States.
The Bach Archive in the German city of Leipzig said Wednesday the painting is a bequest from late American philanthropist William H. Scheide, a lifelong collector of the Baroque musician's music.
It was previously owned by the Jenke family, Jews from what is now Wroclaw who fled Nazi persecution to England in the 1930s.
Painted by Elias Gottlob Haussmann in 1748, the portrait is a well-preserved copy of a 1746 original that has suffered damage over time.
Leipzig's mayor Burkhard Jung, who attended the handover ceremony in Princeton, called the bequest a "great gift" that reflects Europe and its cultural history.
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