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Mona Lisa
Mona Lisa, oil on wood panel by Leonardo da Vinci, 1503–19; in the Louvre, Paris.
The original Mona Lisa is permanently displayed at the Louvre Museum in Paris, where it has been housed since the turn of the 19th century.12
Although the painting has been temporarily moved on rare occasions—such as for a tour of the United States in 1963 and exhibitions in Tokyo and Moscow in 1974—it remains a fixture of the Louvre’s collection. It was also famously stolen from the museum in 1911 but was recovered and returned to the institution two years later.13