Nazi-looted painting spotted in photo in Argentine real estate listing

A painting known as “Portrait of a Lady (Contessa Colleoni),” looted by the Nazis more than 80 years ago from a Jewish art dealer in Amsterdam, has been found on a real estate website advertising a home sale in Argentina, according to the Dutch newspaper AD.

The work by Italian baroque artist Giuseppe Ghislandi belonged to Jacques Goudstikker, a leading Dutch art dealer who fled the Netherlands in mid-May 1940 and died during his escape. It is featured in a database of stolen work and recognized as “unreturned” art by the Dutch culture ministry.

Goudstikker’s wife and son made it to the United States, bringing with them a notebook in which he had kept detailed records of the more than 1,100 works in his gallery, according to La Nacion, an Argentine newspaper.

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La Capital de Mar del Plata, an Argentine daily, confirmed that the house is listed in the neighborhood of Parque Luro in Mar del Plata, the second-largest city in Buenos Aires province.

According to reports, the listing, which was posted earlier this year, is no longer available on the real estate agency website. The property is believed to have belonged to one of the daughters of Friedrich Kadgien, a senior Nazi official who fled Europe after the war and resettled in Buenos Aires, where he died in 1978, La Nacion reports.

In addition, the Guardian reports that two researchers at the Dutch government’s cultural heritage service say they believe Kadgien possessed a second looted artwork by 17th-century Dutch artist Abraham Mignon, based on a social media post by one of Kadgien’s daughters.