The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles said on Tuesday that it would return to Italy a fragment of an ancient Roman fresco that has been in the museum’s collection since 1996. In a news release, Michael Brand, the director of the Getty, said that the museum decided to return the fragment, which dates to the first century B.C. and depicts a landscape, after seeing a published image of another fragment of the fresco being returned to Italy by a private collector. “This image placed our landscape fresco alongside this newly repatriated fragment,” Mr. Brand said in a statement. “Seeing these fragments together made it clear that the two were part of the same wall design and belonged together.” The Getty said that its fragment had been removed from its display at the Getty Villa and would be returned to the Italian Ministry of Culture next month.

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