An 18th-century portrait stolen by the Nazis during WWII is believed to have resurfaced in the most unexpected place: hanging above a sofa in a coastal Argentinian home and discovered not by law enforcement or a museum, but spotted in a photo on a real estate website.

The painting, “Portrait of a Lady” by Italian baroque artist Giuseppe Vittore Ghislandi, belonged to Jacques Goudstikker, a prominent Dutch-Jewish art dealer whose collection of more than 1,100 works was seized after the Nazi invasion of the Netherlands in 1940. Senior Nazi officials, including Hermann Göring, acquired hundreds of pieces, according to the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands (RCE).

The potential discovery is the result of years of work by Dutch daily newspaper Algemeen Dagblad (AD) investigative journalists Cyril Rosman, Paul Post and Peter Schouten, who have been pursuing the case for nearly a decade.

Full article, HERE from ABC News. h/t Stretch

The Nazis carried off everything they could, in the form of artwork, gold, statuary, money, and jewels. This is well known history, and it is also well known that any number of Nazis escaped to Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay.

Many of them took or shipped their most ‘valuable’ items ahead and picked up where they left off when they escaped, took new names, and new ‘lives’, courtesy of the SA governments (and bribes paid).

And many of them have lived out their lives in safety and under the radar, regardless of their crimes during the war. But the items they stole are now being recovered worldwide, and numerous folks to both sides of the Atlantic, along with families, museums, and collections are pushing/sueing to get the items back.

Good for them!!!