Law enforcement agents in Argentina on Tuesday raided a house south of Buenos Aires in search of a suspected Nazi-looted painting that surfaced online recently, but the object had been removed by the time they arrived, the El País newspaper reported on Wednesday.

The raid in Mar del Plata, an affluent coastal town located about 250 miles south of the capital, followed a media report in the Netherlands about the early 18th-century painting “Portrait of a Lady ” by the Italian painter Fra Galgario aka Giuseppe Ghislandi (1655–1743).

The painting was seen on a real estate listing, where it casually appeared as part of the interior decoration of an asset in Mar del Plata, the Algemeen Dagblad newspaper, aka AD , reported on Monday. The paper’s research into how the painting got th

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