Washington (CNN) -- A famous French painting stolen during World War I by the German Army was returned to the government of France by U.S. officials on Thursday. The 1876 Jules Breton work is called "A Fisherman's Daughter/Mender of Nets" or to the people of France it's "Une Fille de Pecheur/Raccommodeuses de Filets." In 1918 the German army confiscated that painting and others from the Musee de Douai in the city of Douai and transported them to Belgium. The following year the Belgium government went to return all the French works of art, but the "Fisherman's Daughter/Mender of Nets" was missing.
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The work by Jules Breton was stolen during World War I
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In 2010 French officials told Interpol the painting might be in New York
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ICE seized the painting from a gallery after an investigation
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The painting was handed over to the French ambassador in a repatriation ceremony
@placeholder investigators worked the case, concluded the painting in New York was the same one stolen from France more than 90 years ago and seized it.