Customers Conversing in a Tavern is a Dutch Golden Age Oil-on-panel painting by artist Adriaen van Ostade completed in 1671.
[1] A promised gift to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston by collectors Susan and Matthew Weatherbie as part of an expansion on Dutch and Flemish paintings, it was subjected to provenance research, to which it has been revealed to have been looted by the Nazis.
[2][4] Goldschmidt subsequently sold the painting to one of Hitler's art dealer, Karl Haberstock, on February 19, 1941 prior to fleeing France in July 1941 to Cuba.
[1] Upon arrival at the MFA in 2017, Victoria Reed, the provenance senior curator spotted the painting in the German Lost Art foundation database, unveiling the dispute between Graupe and Goldschmidt.
[3] With a paid sum to the heirs of the Graupe and Goldschmidt family by the Weatherbies, the work was subsequently added as a pledged gift to the MFA and put on display in 2023.