WASHINGTON - Artwork stolen from a French museum in 1981 and sold in Texas has been returned to France.
 

A ceremony was held Wednesday in Washington to return a monotype by impressionist Camille Pissarro, called "Le Marche aux Poissons," (The Fish Market), to the French ambassador, Francois Delattre.

Investigators believe a man walked out of a museum with the artwork and sold it to a San Antonio gallery in 1985.

No one has been prosecuted.

Purchaser Sharyl Davis of San Antonio in 2003 consigned the 6-by-8-inch artwork to Sotheby's in New York. A pre-auction review determined the item was reported stolen.

Davis in 2010 contested the seizure, but a jury decided the artwork should be repatriated to France.

The monotype in November was officially forfeited to the U.S., for return to France.