France to return Klimt painting looted by the Nazis in 1938

Rosebushes Under the Trees, painted in 1905, was stolen from an Austrian Jewish family

The French government has announced that it will return a Gustav Klimt landscape painting to its rightful owners more than 80 years after it was stolen by the Nazis from a Jewish family in Austria in 1938.

The colourful 1905 oil work by the Austrian symbolist painter, titled Rosebushes Under the Trees, has been hanging in the Musee d'Orsay in Paris for decades.