By Lucila Sigal and Juan Carlos Bustamante
Buenos Aires (Reuters) -Argentina officials said on Wednesday that they had found a painting that the Nazis had been stolen decades ago after days of international intrigues and raids to detect the portrait after it was spotted on a real estate photo.
An official for the placement of the local public prosecutor in the coastal city of Mar del Plata said that the federal public prosecutor of Argentina would soon reveal more details about the recovery of the painting.
The painting, a portrait of Contessa Colleoni by the Italian artist Giuseppe Ghislandi, can be seen in a database with works of art stolen by the Nazis and has been missing for 80 years.
Argentinian authorities fell over a house in Mar del Plata last week after the painting hung on a wall in a photo on a real estate list, but could not find it immediately.
Dutch newspaper Algemeen Dagblad reported for the first time that the house was in the real estate list of Patricia Kadgien, daughter of Friedrich Kadgien, a senior official in the government of Adolf Hitler who moved to Argentina after the Second World War after the Second World War. He died in 1979.
A federal court ordered a house arrest for Patricia Kadgien and her husband from Monday 72 hours. A judicial officer told Reuters that they would be questioned about accusations that they had hindered the investigation from finding the painting.
The portrait of Contessa Colleoni was one of the more than 1,000 works of art that had been stolen by the Nazis from the Amsterdam -based art dealer Jacques Goudstikker, who died in 1940.
(Reporting by Lucila Sigal and Juan Bustamante, adaptation by Cassandra Garrison and Rosalba O'Brien)
