Overview

• Prosecutors in Mar del Plata displayed Giuseppe Ghislandi’s Retrato de una dama after it was delivered and placed under federal custody.
• The piece is listed in Dutch postwar registers as looted from dealer Jacques Goudstikker during the 1940 occupation of the Netherlands.
• A civil judge declined jurisdiction over the family’s attempt to consign the painting, sending the matter to federal court handling the criminal case.
• Patricia Kadgien and her husband remain under 72-hour house arrest on suspicion of obstructing the investigation, with a formalization hearing set for Thursday.
• Investigators seized additional 19th‑century works, drawings and engravings for provenance review, as Interpol, Argentina’s customs agency and Dutch authorities coordinate and Goudstikker’s heirs prepare a restitution claim.