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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Jon Henley Europe correspondent

Old master painting looted by Nazis spotted in Argentinian property listing

Giuseppe Ghislandi’s painting Portrait of a Lady hangs above a sofa in a living room
A photo on the estate agent’s website of Giuseppe Ghislandi’s painting Portrait of a Lady at the property. Photograph: Robles Casas & Campos

More than 80 years after it was looted by the Nazis from a Jewish art dealer in Amsterdam, a portrait by an Italian master has been spotted on the website of an estate agent advertising a house for sale in Argentina.

A photo shows the painting, Portrait of a Lady (Contessa Colleoni) by the late-baroque portraitist Giuseppe Ghislandi, also known as Fra’ Galgario, hanging above a sofa in the living room of the property, in a seaside town near Buenos Aires.

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