Refuge, theft, and vandalism thumb|Louis Béroud's 1911 painting depicting Mona Lisa displayed in the Louvre before the theft, which Béroud discovered and reported to the guards After the French Revolution, the painting was moved to the Louvre but spent a brief period in the bedroom of Napoleon (d. 1821) in the Tuileries Palace. Although the Mona Lisa was not widely known outside the art world, in the 1860s a portion of the French intelligentsia began to hail it as a masterwork of Renaissance painting. During the Franco-Prussian War (1870–1871), the painting was moved from the Louvre to the Brest Arsenal.
Refuge theft and vandalism thumb|Louis Béroud's 1911 painting depicting Mona Lisa displayed in the Louvre before the theft which Béroud discovered and reported to the guards After the French Revolution the painting was moved to the Louvre but spent a brief period in the bedroom of Napoleon (d 1821) in the Tuileries Palace Although the Mona Lisa was not widely known outside the art world in the 1860s a portion of the French intelligentsia began to hail it as a masterwork of Renaissance painting During the Franco-Prussian War (1870–1871) the painting was moved from the Louvre to the Brest Arsenal