"More than 80 years after it was looted by the Nazis from a Jewish art dealer in Amsterdam, a portrait by an Italian master has been spotted on the website of an estate agent advertising a house for sale in Argentina. A photo shows the painting, Portrait of a Lady (Contessa Colleoni) by the late-baroque portraitist Giuseppe Ghislandi, also known as Fra' Galgario, hanging above a sofa in the living room of the property, in a seaside town near Buenos Aires."
"Portrait of a Lady belonged to Jacques Goudstikker, a leading Dutch art dealer who fled the Netherlands in mid-May 1940 to escape the invading Nazis but died after falling in the hold of the vessel carrying him to safety and breaking his neck. Within weeks, Goudstikker's entire collection of more than 1,100 artworks, including numerous paintings catalogued as old masters, had been bought up, in a forced sale and for a small fraction of its true value, by Reichsmarschall Hermann Goring."
A portrait by Giuseppe Ghislandi (Fra' Galgario), Portrait of a Lady (Contessa Colleoni), looted from Jacques Goudstikker in Amsterdam more than 80 years ago, was found in an online estate listing for a house near Buenos Aires. The painting appears above a living-room sofa and is recorded in a lost-art database and by the Dutch culture ministry as unreturned after the second world war. Goudstikker fled the Netherlands in mid-May 1940 and died while escaping; his collection of over 1,100 works was bought in a forced sale by Reichsmarschall Hermann Goring. Some works were later recovered and 202 pieces were restored to the heir Marei von Saher in 2006, but this portrait was not among them. Wartime documents suggest the painting was in the possession of Friedrich Kadgien, an SS officer and senior aide to Goring, who fled to Switzerland in 1945.
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