How was the Mona Lisa recovered in Italy in 1913?

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Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, oil painting showing a woman with a slight smile and folded hands, seated before a distant, hazy landscape. — Mona Lisa *Mona Lisa*, oil on wood panel by Leonardo da Vinci, 1503–19; in the Louvre, Paris.

The Mona Lisa was recovered in 1913 after an art dealer in Florence alerted local authorities that a man had attempted to sell him the painting.1

Upon investigation, police discovered the portrait hidden in the false bottom of a trunk belonging to Vincenzo Peruggia. Peruggia, an Italian immigrant who had previously worked at the Louvre Museum fitting glass on paintings, had stolen the work on August 21, 1911, by hiding in a closet overnight and removing it from the wall. Following the recovery of the painting, Peruggia was arrested, tried, and imprisoned, while the Mona Lisa toured Italy before its return to France.123