ByMary Whitfill Roeloffs,
Forbes Staff.
A work by Italian Baroque painter Giuseppe Ghislandi that was looted by Nazis more than 80 years ago has reportedly been found after reporters for a Dutch newspaper spotted it in a photo included in an Argentinian real estate listing.
"Portrait of a Lady (Contessa Colleoni)" was reportedly looted by the Nazis from Jewish art dealer Jacques Goudstikker in 1940 and has remained missing ever since, even after other paintings stolen from the same dealer were later recovered and restored to his heir.
Reporters from the Dutch newspaper AD had traced the painting, listed in a database maintained by the German Lost Art Foundation, to the late SS officer Friedrich Kadgien, who fled to Switzerland in 1945 and later relocated to Argentina, where he started a family.
