 Eduardo de Valfierno

Eduardo de Valfierno (1850–1931), who posed as a "marqués" (marquis), was supposedly (there are no proofs that he actually existed) an Argentine con man who allegedly masterminded the theft of the "Mona Lisa" in 1911.In 1932 journalist Karl Decker published a story in the "Saturday Evening Post" claiming Valfierno paid several men to steal the work of art from the Louvre, including museum employee Vincenzo Peruggia.