How did Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" get lost?

On Tuesday, August 22, 1911, Parisian artist Louis Bechde, who made a living copying famous paintings for tourists, walked into the square hall of the Louvre - where the Mona Lisa had been painted for the past five years. 》It is collected here and displayed to the public. However, where the Mona Lisa used to hang, there are now four iron nails left. In fact, on Monday morning, many museum employees noticed that the painting was no longer in the distance, but they assumed that an on-site photographer had removed it and taken it into his studio to photograph it. It wasn't until Tuesday morning, when it was discovered that the painting had not been returned to its original location and was not in the photographer's studio, that museum officials were notified that the painting had been stolen! The police were immediately notified and set up headquarters in the museum director's office. The entire museum was searched from top to bottom. It took a full week because the Louvre is so huge - covering an area of ??49 acres. Finally they found the heavy frame that once held the Mona Lisa in a staircase leading to the cloakroom - the only thing they found. As soon as the news became public, French newspapers immediately expressed several opinions on the nature of the theft. One newspaper claimed that an American collector had stolen the painting and would have someone make a realistic forgery and return the fake to the Louvre, while the "collector" would keep the original as his own. Another newspaper claimed the whole incident was a prank meant to show how easy it was to steal from the Louvre. Many people are being questioned over the theft, including museum employees and people who work or live nearby. The police even interrogated Picasso. He once purchased two stone sculptures from a friend named Pierhet. The two stone sculptures were actually stolen by Pierhet from the Louvre. This happened when the Mona Lisa was stolen. the first few months. Picasso thought his friend might have stolen the Mona Lisa. Picasso was worried that the incident would have a negative impact on him and damage his public image, so he had handed the two statues to a local newspaper and asked them to return them on his behalf. Picasso did not want his name published, but someone passed it on to the police. After interrogation, the police determined that Picasso knew nothing about the theft of the Mona Lisa. Fortunately, the famous painting was finally resurfaced 27 months after it was stolen. An Italian named Vincenzo Perugia tried to place this masterpiece of art in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy. Perugia said he stole the famous painting out of patriotism. He believed that such a masterpiece by a famous Italian artist should not be collected by France. However, Perugia did not know that although the Mona Lisa was completed in Italy, Leonardo da Vinci took it to France and sold it to Francis I for four thousand gold coins. How did Perugia steal the Mona Lisa? He spent the entire Sunday evening in the Louvre, hiding in a small, inconspicuous room. On Monday morning, while the museum was closed to the public, he sneaked into the room where the painting was housed and removed the painting from the wall. He then cut the painting out of its frame on the stairs. As he left the museum building, he encountered a locked door. He unscrewed the doorknob, put it in his pocket, walked out of the Louvre, and entered history. Interestingly, ten months before the Mona Lisa was stolen, the Louvre decided to encase all masterpieces with glass. Perugia was one of four men assigned to this task. The police detained Perugia after the incident, but he remained calm and composed, so there was no suspicion at all. After learning the news that the Mona Lisa had been recovered, people were wildly excited. The painting toured major cities in his native Italy, including Rome and Milan, where thousands of people flocked to museums to see it and say their final farewells.

On December 30, 1913, the painting returned to France