The note in the margin, 15030:00 / 0:45Preview
Ten stops, 23 minutes, on your phone in the museum. The first stop is free, the whole tour $4.99.
Stop 3 of 10 in The Louvre
Mona Lisa
It hangs on its own wall in the Salle des États (room 711), on the first floor of the Denon wing, behind protective glass.
Where to find it
Salle des États (room 711), Denon wing, first floor.
Leonardo began it around 1503 and was still working on it years later. It’s small, about 79 by 53 centimeters, painted on a poplar panel.
On 21 August 1911 an Italian glazier who had worked at the Louvre, Vincenzo Peruggia, walked out with it. Nothing was heard of it for over two years, until he tried to sell it to an Italian art dealer in 1913, and the dealer alerted the authorities.
Turn around before you leave: Veronese’s Wedding Feast at Cana, the largest painting in the Louvre, fills the opposite wall.
