It took 80 years to track down followed by a week of international intrigue, but a long-lost 18th century painting looted by the Nazis has now been recovered after it was spotted in an Argentinian recent real estate listing.

The “Portrait of a Lady,” which belonged to a prominent Jewish art collector before it was stolen during World War II is now in the hands of authorities, officials in the South American nation said Wednesday.

The full-length portrait of Countess Colleoni by Italian artist Giuseppe Ghislandi “was part of the Goudstikker Collection, comprising more than 1,100 works of art. Jacques Goudstikker, a Jewish art dealer, died in 1940 while fleeing the Nazis,” the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands told NBC News in a written statement.

It had not been seen publicly i

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