The two paintings—side-by-side Adam and Eve panels, a diptych in delicious Northern Renaissance detail—went to Hitler’s chief underling, the fat philistine and stolen-art hoarder Hermann Göring, in 1940. And now, according to a California District Court decision, they’ll stay in a Pasadena’s Norton Simon Museum, where they’ve been for forty years. They will not be returned to their rightful heir.

The museum’s founder, Norton Simon, bought Adam and Eve by Lucas Cranach the Elder from Russian nobleman who’d won them from the Dutch government not ten years prior. But Adam and Eve had fallen to Holland after Göring’s pretrial suicide, although their owner, collector Jacques Goudstikker—who died while fleeing Holland—had family in Europe and America.