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An Argentine federal court announced Wednesday that the authorities had recovered The “portrait of a lady” lost a long time ago, a job of the eighteenth century of the Italian painter Giuseppe Ghislandi that was looted by the Nazis In World War II and rediscovered when it appeared on a list of real estate online last month.

Before the presentation of the giant portrait framed in gold on Wednesday in the Argentine coastal city of Mar del Plata, the painting had not been publicly seen in 80 years.

The first color photo of the portrait arose in a list of real estate involuntarily published by one of Friedrich Kadgien’s daughters, the fugitive Nazi officer accused of stealing the painting of one of the merchants and art collectors before the Europe of Europe.

“We are doing this simply so that the community to which we owe the discovery of work … to see these images,” said federal prosecutor Daniel Adler at a press conference to show the complete portrait of Countess Colleoni, her black ink and her dress embroidered with pastel flowers.

“They were people from the community, specifically journalists, who caused the investigation,” said Adler.

Dutch journalists made the surprising discovery by investigating Kadgien’s past in Argentina, where the high -ranking official fled after the collapse of the third Reich, and then died in 1978.

The news of the finding excited worldwide and finally reached the heirs of the original owner of the painting, the Dutch Jewish art collector Jacques Goudstikker. He died in a wreck after fleeing from Amsterdam before advancing in German troops in May 1940.

His descendants have tried to recover an estimate of 1,100 paintings that are missing since the forced sale of the extensive Goudstikker inventory to Adolf Hitler’s right man, Hermann Göring, who built an important art collection during World War II.

The sudden reappearance of “portrait of a lady” last week was fleeting. A few hours after the publication of history in the Dutch newspaper Algemeen Dagblad last Monday, the real estate list was withdrawn. Police raided the rustic house of Mar del Plata by Patricia Kadgien, the daughter of the Nazi officer, but the painting was not there.

Earlier this week, the authorities assaulted other houses belonging to the Kadgien sisters in Mar del Plata, taking paintings and engravings that suspected in a similar way that it had been stolen during the 1940s.

The Federal Office of Argentina placed Patricia Kadgien and her husband under house arrest pending an audience on Thursday for charges of concealment and obstruction of justice.

Adler, the prosecutor, told journalists that the couple’s lawyer had given the painting to the authorities early. He did not specify where the portrait would go below.

An expert in invited art to help with research, Ariel Bassano, said the painting was “storing in a special camera” for custody.

“It is in good condition given its age,” Bassano said, dating the portrait to 1710 and valuing it at approximately $ 50,000.

It is not clear exactly how the painting entered the possession of Kadgien, who worked as a financial advisor to Göring.

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