More than 80 years ago, the master painting of Portrait of a Lady by Italian painter Giuseppe Ghislandi was stolen by Nazis from a Jewish art dealer in Amsterdam. It hadn’t been seen since it went missing–until this week, when it was spotted in a real estate listing for a home for sale in Argentina. And while that may have seemed like a mystery solved, The Guardian reports that once the portrait was spotted, it suddenly went missing again.

The painting, a portrait of Contessa Colleoni, was one of more than 1,000 that were looted from the collection of Jacques Goudstikker during World War II, and was last seen in 1940, according to the Lost Art Database . Its possession was traced by Dutch newspaper Algemeen Dagblad (AD), which found that the painting landed in the possession of Nazi G

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