The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that two paintings by Lucas Cranach the Elder, which are believed to have been plundered by the Nazis, can continue to hang at Norton Simon Museum.

The paintings, which date back nearly half a millennium and depict the biblical figures Adam and Eve before their fall from the Garden of Eden, are believed to have once belonged to the father-in-law of Marei von Saher, whose firm sold the works under duress while fleeing Germany in 1940.

Marei von Saher had petitioned the court to return the paintings to her under a California law passed in 2002, which extended the statute of limitations for lawsuits regarding Nazi-plundered art to 2010. A ruling last year, though, found that the law interfered with the federal government’s right to wage war and set foreign policy, rendering her claim moot.

Von Saher could continue her petition to the Supreme Court, though she has not yet said whether she intends to continue to challenge the ruling.

Read more at the Los Angeles Times.