The Mona Lisa is 77 centimetres tall in its standard listed dimensions.
Leonardo’s portrait measures 77 cm in height and 53 cm in width. It is painted in oil on a poplar panel rather than on canvas, a detail that helps explain why the work is often described as a relatively compact object despite its enormous fame. The painting is housed in the Louvre Museum in Paris.
The sitter is traditionally identified as Lisa Gherardini, wife of the Florentine merchant Francesco del Giocondo. That identification explains the Italian name La Gioconda, while Mona Lisa derives from the honorific “Monna Lisa.” Leonardo worked on the portrait for years, with its exact completion date still debated.
A frequent quiz mistake is to give the width, 53 cm, instead of the height. Other dimensions sometimes circulate because of frames, reproductions or different measurements of related works, but 77 × 53 cm is the standard catalogue specification for the Louvre painting.