From which palace was the Mona Lisa moved to the Louvre in 1797?

From which palace was the Mona Lisa moved to the Louvre in 1797? The Palace of Versailles. After the French Revolution, the portrait left the former royal collection at Versailles and entered the Louvre’s national museum collection.

Leonardo brought the painting to France late in his life, and it became part of the royal collection after his death in 1519. It was kept at the Palace of Fontainebleau before Louis XIV moved it to Versailles, where it remained for much of the later royal period.

The revolutionary government transformed royal collections into public museums. The Mona Lisa entered the Louvre in 1797 and was displayed publicly there from 1798. It did not remain permanently in one room: Napoleon later had it placed in the Tuileries Palace, in his private apartments, before it returned to the Louvre in 1802.

That temporary Tuileries episode explains a common wrong answer. The Tuileries was a later residence during Napoleon’s era, not the palace from which the painting made its revolutionary-era transfer to the Louvre. Versailles is the key location in the painting’s pre-Louvre history.