After 80 years of being lost, Giuseppe Ghislandi’s Portrait of a Lady has finally been recovered. After it briefly appeared in an online real estate listing last month, the family that was in possession of the painting turned it in to the Argentinian authorities.

The painting, a portrait of Contessa Colleoni, was one of more than 1,000 that were looted by Nazis from the collection of Jewish art dealer Jacques Goudstikker during World War II, and was last seen in 1940, according to the Lost Art Database . It traded hands among the Nazi ranks, first acquired via forced sale by Nazi Germany’s Supreme Commander of the Air Force, Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring, before it was believed to have landed in the hands of SS officer Friedrich Kadgien. According to Dutch newspaper Algemeen Dagblad

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