A poignant painting depicting a girl in a bonnet and her younger brother gazing across the Normandy coast towards an unknown horizon has found a permanent home at Paris’s Musée d’Orsay, marking a significant step in France ’s long-overdue reckoning with Nazi -era art plunder. The artwork itself faced an uncertain fate in 1942 when it was acquired in Paris for Adolf Hitler , one of countless pieces swept up in the systematic looting of European Jews. The Belgian artist Alfred Stevens’ 1891 work is now a centrepiece in a new gallery, the first in the museum’s history dedicated to the "orphaned masterpieces" of the Nazi era . Uniquely, the paintings are displayed so visitors can examine their reverse sides, revealing the stamps, labels, and inventory marks that trace their journey from private homes into Nazi hands.…