A painting that was once stolen from a Jewish arts dealer by the Nazis during World War II has been discovered in a real estate ad for a home in Argentina.
'Portrait of a Lady,' a portrait of Contessa Colleoni created by Vittore Ghislandi in 1743, was pictured hanging over a sofa in the real estate listing posted by Robles Casas & Campos, the Telegraph reports.
Art experts who reviewed the images told the Dutch newspaper AD they believe the painting hanging on the wall in the Argentine home is the authentic 'Portrait of a Lady' based on the dimensions of the piece and the fact that there would be little incentive to forge it.
Similar artwork by Ghislandi have fetched only several thousand dollars, sometimes even less, at auction in recent years, according to the Jewish News Syndicate.
'There is no reason to think of why this should be a copy,' Annelies Kool and Perry Schrier of the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands told AD, adding that 'final confirmation can come by looking at the back of the painting' where 'there may still be marks or labels that confirm the origin.'
