Argentine court clears return of Nazi-looted portrait to Jewish dealer’s heir
Experts said the 18th-century portrait was part of Jacques Goudstikker’s collection and valued at about 250,000 euros.
- On Friday, an Argentine court approved returning the 18th-century "Portrait of a Lady" to Marei von Saher, heir of Dutch-Jewish art dealer Jacques Goudstikker, ending a legal dispute over the Nazi-looted work.
- The painting was among more than 1,000 artworks stolen from Goudstikker's collection after the 1940 Nazi invasion of the Netherlands; it later surfaced in Argentina in the possession of Friedrich Kadgien, a fugitive Nazi financial official.
- Dutch reporters spotted the work in an online real estate listing in August 2025, prompting police raids in Mar del Plata, Argentina, that recovered the painting alongside two 19th-century works and other prints.
- Under the agreement, Patricia Kadgien and her husband Juan Carlos Cortegoso consented to return the artwork and submit to two years of court supervision, avoiding criminal trial while making payments to local hospitals.
- Von Saher intends to exhibit the portrait in Buenos Aires for one year before repatriation; experts now attribute the work to Italian artist Giacomo Antonio Melchiorre Ceruti, differing from prior identification as Giuseppe Vittore Ghislandi.
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Photo in an advertisement exposed an 18th century painting stolen by the Nazis 80 years ago. The work was in Argentina, in the living room of the daughter of a former SS financier. It will now be returned to the heir.
A court in Mar del Plata, Argentina, ordered the return of the painting “Portrait of a Lady”, which the Nazis stole during World War II from Jewish art dealer Jacques Goodsticker, his heiress Mareja von Sacher.
A painting stolen by the Nazis during World War II is to be returned to the heir of its former Jewish owner. The painting was discovered last year in Argentina in the home of the daughter of a former Nazi official and her husband.
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"Portrait of a Lady," Italian painting looted by Nazis, ordered returned to Jewish collector's heir
The painting was among the artworks looted and sold under duress to Nazi officials from art dealer Jacques Goudstikker after Adolf Hitler's Germany invaded the Netherlands in 1940.
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