This is a handout image released by the auction house Christie's in London Tuesday April 22, 2008 of the oil painting "A Boy, in Profile, Singing, in a Feigned Oval" by Pieter de Grebber dates from the late 1620s. The 17th-century Dutch painting whose Jewish owner was killed during World War II is to be auctioned this week after Poland helped broker an a-greement between his descendants and the current owner, an official said Tuesday.

圖為17世紀荷蘭畫家葛瑞伯在1620年代底所畫的油畫「一個歌唱少年的側影，在虛構的鵝蛋面上」，倫敦佳士得拍賣公司於4月22日發布該畫的肖像照片。擁有這幅17世紀荷蘭畫作的猶太人，二次大戰時喪生。佳士得人員說，在波蘭經紀人協助原來的畫主後代和目前擁有該畫的主人達成協議後，這幅畫本周將公開拍賣。

Pieter de Grebber originally studied in his native Haarlem under his father Frans. He then worked un-der Hendrick Goltzius, a period that strongly influ-ence the development of his departure from the pop-ular Baroque style. De Grebber preferred historical subjects and depicted them in large paintings for pri-vate homes and also altarpieces. He joined the Haar-lem painter’s guild in 1632 and became its dean ten years later. He was also thought to have worked at courts in Copenhagen, Denmark, and Hollstein.

葛瑞伯原本在荷蘭老家哈倫和父親法朗士習畫。後師從霍爾齊厄斯，這個時期影響他日後畫風甚大，他也擺脫當時很受歡迎的巴洛克風格。葛瑞伯偏愛歷史文物，並以大幅畫作來描繪它們，主要對象是私人房宅和聖壇。1632年，他也加入哈倫畫家公會，並在十年後當上會長。一般認為，他也曾在丹麥哥本哈根和何爾斯坦等地的宮廷作畫。

The asking price at Friday's auction is between 20,000 and 30,000 British pounds, Christie's auction house in London says on its Web site.

倫敦佳士得拍賣網站上說，周五拍賣價約在兩萬到三萬英鎊之間。

When World War II broke out, the painting be-longed to Abe Gutnajer, a leading Jewish art collector and antiquarian in Warsaw. Gutnajer was killed by Nazi troops in the Warsaw Ghetto in July 1942, and the painting which he had bought at an auction in Berlin in 1917 went missing. The painting was either confiscated by Nazi officials or looted by Nazi troops after Gutnajer and his family were forced into the Warsaw Ghetto in 1940, said Wojciech Kowalski, who leads Poland's ef-forts to restitute works of art looted during World War II.

當二次大戰爆發時，這幅畫落入古納澤手中，他是華沙首要猶太畫收藏家和古文物收藏家。1942年7月，他在華沙貧民窟被納粹殺害，這幅他1917年在柏林買的畫就此失蹤。這幅畫可能是被納粹官員沒收，或在古納澤及其家人於 1940年被迫到華沙貧民窟後被納粹軍方掠奪，帶領波蘭償還二次大戰被掠奪藝術品的柯瓦斯基說。

The painting resurfaced in 2006 when a Latvian, who requested anonymity, offered it for auction at Christie's.

這幅畫2006年再度出現，一名要求匿名的拉脫維亞人提供佳士得拍賣。