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Home at Last: An oil painting by Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens, stolen from a Spanish museum seven years ago, was formally handed back to Spain on Monday. “The Dawn,” painted at the request of Spanish King Philip IV in 1636, was stolen from the Fine Arts museum in the northwestern town of La Coruna in 1985. It was tracked down by Spanish police at a U.S. auction in 1990 but a long and complicated U.S. court decision delayed the painting’s return. A second painting titled “The Labyrinth of Crete” was stolen with it but was traced in 1986 and returned two years later. The thief has not been arrested.