The Mona Lisa is in room 711, the Salle des États, in the Denon wing on level 1 (the first floor) of the Louvre, as of October 2026. It has hung there since 6 April 2005. The panel is under 80 centimetres high.
The Mona Lisa is in room 711 of the Louvre, in the Denon wing on level 1, the first floor. The Louvre's own catalogue calls the room the Salle des États, and the painting has hung there since 6 April 2005. That was its place on the museum's plan in October 2026. The Louvre moves works from time to time, so check the room on the museum's website before you go. The Winged Victory, at the top of the Daru staircase in room 703, is the nearest big landmark.
A small panel
The painting is smaller than most people expect. It is oil on a poplar panel, under 80 centimetres high and about 53 wide. Look at the edges of her face and her hands: there are no hard outlines, because the paint is softly blended.
The sitter and the commission
Hear a stop from this walk
Quai d'Anjou and the Hôtel de Lauzun: A Plain Front, a Rich House
Leonardo was already working on it in October 1503, when a Florentine official, Agostino Vespucci, wrote in a book that Leonardo was painting a portrait of Lisa del Giocondo. The Louvre's record names her as Lisa Gherardini, the wife of the Florence silk merchant Francesco del Giocondo. Leonardo never delivered it, and kept it with him until he died in 1519.
How it reached France
The French king Francis I most likely acquired the painting in 1518, though Leonardo held on to it until the end of his life. It has been in the national collection since 1793.
The theft
On 21 August 1911 a Louvre employee, Vincenzo Peruggia, stole it. It was found in Florence, and it returned to the Louvre on 4 January 1914.
Next door
Veronese's The Wedding at Cana is in the same room, nearly ten metres wide, painted for a monastery dining hall in Venice. The room also holds Venetian paintings by Titian. Many of the pictures here entered France by different doors: some were bought, some were taken by the armies of the 1790s.
How this fits the Roamer guide
The Mona Lisa is on both "The Louvre in 90 Minutes" and "The Louvre in Two Hours" in Roamer's independent audio guide to the Louvre. Open room 711 and play its story, or start a route: the Louvre guide. For the rest of the museum, by wing and room number, read what to see at the Louvre. It is not affiliated with the museum, and admission is separate.
Cover photo: Leonardo da Vinci, Mona Lisa (C2RMF retouched), via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).
Ready to experience it?
Notre-Dame and Île de la Cité: An Island Rebuilt Three Times
90 min · 2.1 km · easy
More from Paris
Explore more at your own pace.
Musée d'Orsay: What to See, Floor by Floor
The Code of Hammurabi at the Louvre: Which Room, and the Story of the Stone
The Louvre: What to See, by Wing and Room Number, and a Two-Hour Route
The Raft of the Medusa at the Louvre: Where It Hangs and the True Story
The Venus de Milo: Where Are Her Arms, and Where to Find Her
