Vincenzo Peruggia

Born: 8 October 1881
Died: 8 October 1925, aged about 44
Record: Wikidata Q361362 · Wikipedia

Perpetrator in The Theft of the Mona Lisa

Italian decorator and glazier from Dumenza who had worked at the Louvre; took the painting on 21 August 1911 and was convicted in Florence in 1914.

1911–1914 · Louvre, Paris · Convicted

In 1911 a glazier walked out of the Louvre with Leonardo's portrait. It was gone 28 months, and the empty wall made it the world's most famous painting. Read the case.

Dated events

21 August 1911
On the Louvre's Monday closing day, Peruggia takes the Mona Lisa from the Salon Carré and leaves the museum with it.
11 December 1913
In a Florence hotel room, Alfredo Geri and Uffizi director Giovanni Poggi examine the panel Peruggia offers them and take it away.
12 December 1913
Peruggia is arrested at his hotel in Florence.
5 June 1914
A Florentine court convicts Peruggia with mitigating circumstances and sentences him to a year and fifteen days.
8 October 1925
Peruggia dies of a heart attack at Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, near Paris, on his 44th birthday.