A couple has been placed under house arrest as part of the hunt for a missing 17th-century painting by Italian master Giuseppe Ghislandi that was stolen by the Nazis. The location of “Portrait of a Lady” came to light when it appeared in a real estate listing in Mar del Plata, Argentina. The Netherlands-based newspaper Algemeen Dagblad spotted the artwork, which according to ARTnews is listed in a database for missing paintings from World War II, hanging over a sofa in a photograph for the listing. The Associated Press reports that the house belongs to Juan Carlos Cortegoso and his wife, Patricia Kadgien, daughter of Nazi officer Friedrich Kadgien, who fled to Argentina at the end of the war. The painting had belonged to Jewish art dealer Jacques Goudstikker, who had worked out of the Dutc

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