Inside the Gurlitt collection

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Wilhelm Lachnit: Man and woman in the window, 1923 AFP

Jean-Louis Forain: Woman in evening dress with a chair, 1800s AFP

Paul Signac: Port of St Malo, 1828 AFP

Eugène Delacroix: Two men AFP

Hans Christoph: Pair, 1924 AFP

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec: The sick Carnot!, 1893 AFP

Eugène Boudin: Company on the beach AFP

Edvard Munch: Reclining half-nude I, 1920 AFP

Max Liebermann: Two riders on a beach, 1901 AFP

Henri Matisse: Sitting woman (circa 1923) AFP

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Cornelius Gurlitt's collection of artworks was discovered by chance in his Munich apartment in 2012. Pieces had been piled from floor to ceiling, behind discarded food wrappings and empty tins.

The collection includes paintings, sketches and prints, all handed down to Gurlitt from his art dealer father. It is valued at an estimated CHF1.23 billion ($1.4 billion). More than 200 of the paintings of inestimable value were the object of international search warrants issued long ago.

(Pictures: AFP/Staatsanwaltschaft Augsburg)