By Lucila Sigal

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) -A federal court in Argentina ordered house arrest for the daughter of a former Nazi official and her husband after a raid failed to locate an iconic painting stolen decades ago by the Nazis.

In an incident that captivated Argentina last week, authorities raided a home in the coastal city of Mar de Plata after a Dutch newspaper identified a painting seen in a real estate photo as an Italian masterpiece registered on a database of lost wartime art.

They failed, however, to locate the piece.

The painting, a portrait of Contessa Colleoni by Italian artist Giuseppe Ghislandi, who died in 1743, had been missing for 80 years, before it was spotted in the listing for a home believed to be owned by Patricia Kadgien, the daughter of the late former Nazi of

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