Overview

• Dutch newspaper AD located Giuseppe Ghislandi’s Portrait d’une dame in photos from a Mar del Plata house listing attributed to descendants of Friedrich Kadgien.
• The painting belonged to Amsterdam dealer Jacques Goudstikker and was seized in 1940, then carried by Kadgien through Switzerland and Brazil before he settled in Argentina, where he died in 1978.
• Two researchers with the Dutch cultural heritage service say they also spotted a missing Abraham Mignon still life in a social-media post by one of Kadgien’s daughters.
• Lawyers for Goudstikker’s heirs say they will pursue recovery and restitution of both works.
• Art investigator Arthur Brand reported that Argentine police raided a house searching for the portrait, a development that remains to be independently confirmed.