The painting, by French post-impressionist Edouard-Leon Cortés, was one of 3,000 paintings stolen from the gallery over a 12-year period in the 1950s and 1960s.
The painting was one of 3,000 pieces stolen from the Arnot Gallery in New York over a 12-year period in the 1950s and 1960s but it was recovered from a dealer in Mawdesley, Lancashire