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The Cleveland Museum and French authorities have settled a 6-year-old dispute over the ownership of a 339-year-old painting, museum officials said. “The Holy Family at the Step,” painted in 1648 by Nicolas Poussin, was purchased from a private collection in France in 1981 by former Cleveland museum director Sherman Lee. French art officials had contended the painting left the country without authorization. The agreement calls for the painting to be displayed at the Louvre for various exhibitions during the next 25 years, beginning in May, 1987.