Overview

• Argentine authorities searched a villa in Mar del Plata on Tuesday after reports indicated the artwork was inside.
• Reporters from Algemeen Dagblad spotted the painting in online photos for the house, where it appeared more clearly than in lost-art databases.
• Independent experts consulted by the journalists identified the image as Giuseppe Vittore Ghislandi’s Portrait of a Lady.
• The work belonged to Jewish dealer Jacques Goudstikker, whose Nazi-seized collection has only been partly restituted despite more than 200 returns to heir Marei von Saher.
• Goudstikker’s heirs say they will seek its return as research links the piece to ex-Nazi officer Friedrich Gustav Kadgien, and reporters say legal disputes could follow.