A stolen masterpiece that vanished during the darkest days of World War II has finally made its way home, and it took a house-hunting website to crack the case wide open.
An Argentine federal judge signed off on the return of “Portrait of a Lady,” an 18th-century canvas by Italian baroque painter Giacomo Ceruti, known as Il Pitocchetto, to the heirs of Dutch Jewish art dealer Jacques Goudstikker.
The ruling brings a bizarre and decades-spanning saga to a close, one that involves fleeing Nazis, a shady South American hideout and, of all things, a real estate photo shoot gone wrong.
Read more at https://nypost.com/2026/09/15/real-estate/nazi-looted-painting-surfaced-in-a-real-estate-listing-must-be-returned/
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