Overview
- A judge approved the deal on Friday that requires the 18th-century Portrait of a Lady to be returned to Marei von Saher, the sole heir of Dutch dealer Jacques Goudstikker.
- Dutch reporters first spotted photos of the work in a Mar del Plata real-estate listing last August, which prompted police raids and a yearlong investigation.
- Patricia Kadgien and her husband were charged with aggravated concealment and agreed to renounce any claim to the painting in exchange for two years of court supervision and court-ordered payments to local hospitals.
- Argentina’s National Academy of Fine Arts reattributed the work to Giacomo Antonio Melchiorre Ceruti, experts authenticated it as from Goudstikker’s collection, and valuers put its worth at about €250,000.
- Von Saher has agreed to allow the portrait to be exhibited in Argentina before repatriation and authorities are still reviewing other items seized from Kadgien properties for possible wartime provenance issues.