Portrait of a Lady by Giuseppe Ghislandi was taken from a Jewish art dealer living in the Netherlands named Jacques Goudstikker in 1940, then held by senior Nazi official Friedrich Kadgien, who fled to Argentina after World War II.
An 18th-century painting stolen by the Nazis during World War II was just rediscovered after it was spotted in photos of a house listed for sale in Argentina.
The painting, Portrait of a Lady by Italian baroque artist Giuseppe Vittore Ghislandi, was one of more than 1,100 seized from Jewish art dealer Jacques Goudstikker by the Nazis during the invasion of the Netherlands in 1940. Other pieces from Goudstikker’s collection were later recovered, but Portrait of a Lady remained missing for more than 80 years.
The painting was finally located by Dutch repor