Pictures often tell stories. But pictures also have a story themselves when they have passed through many hands on their way into a museum. The author who supports his views with the results of relevant provenance research goes on a search for traces of these descriptions of the lives of artworks from the WallrafRichartz Museum in Cologne the city of Cologne thus had to litigate against the daughter of Hermann Goering for nineteen years in connection with a painting by Cranach a high price had