"Argentine prosecutors on Tuesday announced they have placed the daughter of a former Nazi official and her husband under house arrest in the case of a missing 17th-century painting believed to be stolen by her father decades ago. The painting "Portrait of a Lady" belonged to Dutch-Jewish art dealer Jacques Goudstikker before the Nazi takeover of his prominent Amsterdam gallery as Germany invaded the Netherlands in May 1940."
"The Dutch archive lists "Portrait of a Lady," by Italian artist Giuseppe Vittore Ghislandi, who died in 1743, as having passed into the hands of a man named Kadgien from Berlin. The painting had been missing for the last 80 years before it was spotted last month in a real estate ad for a home owned by Patricia Kadgien, the daughter of the late Nazi official Friedrich Kadgien."
"When authorities raided the home, the painting was missing. Friedrich Kadgien fled to Argentina after the German defeat and the end of World War II. He was never charged with crimes related to the Nazi regime and died in 1978, according to local media reports. Then Dutch newspaper Algemeen Dagblad last week said they spotted the painting while searching for stolen artwork from the Netherlands. But Argentine authorities have failed to locate the piece since raiding Patricia Kadgien's home."
Argentine prosecutors placed the daughter of a former Nazi official and her husband under 72-hour house arrest while investigators search for a 17th-century painting once owned by Dutch-Jewish dealer Jacques Goudstikker. The painting, "Portrait of a Lady" by Giuseppe Vittore Ghislandi, is listed in Dutch archives as having passed to a man named Kadgien from Berlin and went missing during the Nazi era. The painting was reportedly spotted in a real estate ad for Patricia Kadgien's home, but was not found during an initial raid. New raids uncovered two other paintings; the couple faces questioning and potential charges of concealment of theft in the context of genocide.
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