Judge orders Nazi-looted painting discovered in Argentina returned to Dutch Jewish heirs after 80 years

An Argentine court ruled this month that Giacomo Ceruti's 'Portrait of a Lady,' stolen from a Jewish-owned Amsterdam gallery in 1945 and hidden for 80 years by the daughter of a Nazi official, must be returned to its rightful heirs. Dutch journalists discovered the painting in a real-estate listing in Mar del Plata last summer; Argentine police recovered it after raiding the villa, and the defendants agreed to return it and donate roughly $3,200 to local hospitals as part of a settlement.

This is described as the first time Argentina's justice system has recovered and restituted a Nazi-looted painting.