Ruysdael

The returned van Ruysdael painting had a murky history until recently.

Mr. Slieker said his father was able to press a second button to sound the alarm, but the thief managed to get away with the Hals and another painting, “Forest View with Flowering Elderberry,” by Jacob Salomonsz van Ruysdael.

One of the works, by Jacob van Ruysdael, was taken from a Jewish publisher in Berlin, German researchers found, and ended up in the hands of Dutch art dealers who appear to have sold it to the museum in Gdansk.

Many of them were previously attributed to artists such as Rembrandt, Jan van Goyen and Salomon van Ruysdael, often well into the 20th century.

The building, which houses a number of other creative enterprises, along with workshops for artisanal metal workers and piano builders, offers misty, cross-canal views straight out of a Salomon van Ruysdael painting.