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Where did Vincenzo Peruggia hide the Mona Lisa after stealing it?

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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.

After stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre Museum in 1911, Vincenzo Peruggia kept the painting hidden in the false bottom of a trunk. It remained there until he attempted to sell the work to an art dealer in Florence two years later, which led to his arrest and the recovery of the masterpiece.1