Argentine police recover Nazi-looted painting spotted in property ad

Argentine police have recovered an 18th century painting stolen from a Dutch Jewish art collector over a week after it appeared in a property ad, investigators said Wednesday. Prosecutors said that "Portrait of a Lady" by Italian baroque portraitist Giuseppe Ghislandi, which was photographed hanging in the home of the daughter of a senior SS officer, had been returned by the woman's lawyer.

The painting was recognized last week by the Dutch newspaper AD in photographs of a house for sale in the seaside resort of Mar del Plata. It was among over 1,000 artworks stolen from Amsterdam art dealer Jacques Goudstikker from the Nazis during World War II.