Painting stolen by Nazis is found in an estate agent’s advert

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A painting which had been missing for decades after being stolen by the Nazis has disappeared again, days after it was thought to have been found.

The portrait of Contessa Colleoni by Italian artist Giuseppe Ghislandi is on a database of artwork lost during World War II after being stolen by Nazi Germany.

It was among more than 1,000 works of art stolen from Amsterdam-based art dealer Jacques Goudstikker, who died in 1940 in an accident at sea while trying to escape the Netherlands.

Documents suggested the portrait of Contessa Colleoni may have ended up in the possession of Friedrich Kadgien, a senior official in Adolf Hitler’s government who moved to Argentina after