Overview

• By order of Judge Santiago Inchausti, the painting was transferred to the Palacio de Tribunales in Buenos Aires and placed under Supreme Court custody in a biometrically secured, climate‑controlled room.
• The transfer was executed under strict conservation protocols, with the piece packed in neutral materials and escorted by a security team led by Comisario Roberto Varela.
• Argentine justice ordered expert examinations to determine authorship, dating and condition after Italian specialists questioned the initial attribution to Fra’ Galgario and pointed to Giacomo Ceruti.
• Prosecutors maintain aggravated concealment charges against Patricia Kadgien and Juan Carlos Cortegoso, who face travel restrictions as the investigation proceeds.
• The portrait, tied in Dutch postwar registers to Jewish dealer Jacques Goudstikker, resurfaced after a journalist spotted it in a real‑estate listing; Interpol was alerted, the family’s lawyer delivered it on September 3, and the FBI informed prosecutors that Goudstikker’s heirs filed a claim in New York.