An Italian painting stolen by the Nazis from a Jewish art dealer in Amsterdam has surfaced on a real estate broker’s website in Argentina more than eight decades after its disappearance, the BBC reported.

A photo from the listing shows Portrait of a Lady by Giuseppe Ghislandi hanging above a sofa in a house near Buenos Aires that once belonged to a high-ranking Nazi official who emigrated to South America after World War II.

The painting, included in the international database of artworks lost during the war, was traced after the property was put up for sale by the daughter of the former Nazi, the Dutch newspaper AD reports.

The work is among hundreds looted from the collection of art dealer Jacques Goudstikker, who during the war helped other Jews to escape. Goudstikker himself died in an accident at sea while trying to leave the Netherlands and is buried in England.

More than 1,100 works from his collection were purchased through a forced sale by senior Nazis after his death, among them Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring. Some were recovered after the war in Germany and exhibited at Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum as part of the national collection. Goudstikker’s sole heir, his daughter-in-law Marei von Saher, received 202 of these works in 2006, AD writes.

But one painting—a portrait of Countess Colleoni by the late Baroque portraitist Giuseppe Ghislandi—had remained missing until now.

AD’s investigation uncovered wartime documents indicating that the work ended up in the hands of Friedrich Kadgien, an SS officer and financial adviser to Göring. He fled to Switzerland in 1945, then moved to Brazil, and later to Argentina, where he became a successful businessman.

Kadgien—described by American investigators as “a snake of the lowest order”—died in 1979. According to a U.S. file cited by AD, it stated of him: “He appears to have substantial assets, may still be of use to us.”

The newspaper states that for years it sought contact with Kadgien’s two daughters in Buenos Aires to discuss their father and the missing works, without success. The decisive breakthrough came when one of the sisters listed the family home for sale through a luxury real estate agency.

“There is no reason to believe this is a copy,” say Annelies Kool and Perry Schrier of the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands, after reviewing the photographs for AD.

The publication also reports another looted painting—a still life with flowers by the 17th-century Dutch artist Abraham Mignon—spotted on one of the sisters’ social media.

All attempts to contact the family after the discovery of the photo were unsuccessful. One of the daughters replied to reporters: “I don’t know what information you want from me, and I don’t know which painting you’re talking about.”

The lawyers for Goudstikker’s heirs said they would do everything possible to recover the work. “My family’s aim is to restore every single piece stolen from Jacques’s collection and to restore his legacy,” said Marei von Saher. | BGNES