The daughter of a Nazi leader who died in Argentina has been put on house arrest after a painting believed to have been stolen from a Jewish art dealer during World War II emerged in a recent real estate listing of her family’s Argentina home.

Patricia Kadgien and her partner, Juan Carlos Cortegoso, have been put on a 72-hour house arrest as part of the search for the painting “Portrait of a Lady,” an 18th-century portrait of Countess Colleoni by Vittore Ghislandi, the Argentinian public prosecutor’s office said in a news release .

It’s thought that the painting was sold to Kadgien’s father, Friedrich Kadgien, in 1944, Yaél M. Weitz, attorney for Marei von Saher, the daughter-in-law of the painting's owner, art dealer Jacques Goudstikker, told USA TODAY.

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