In which wing of the Louvre is the Mona Lisa displayed?

The Mona Lisa is displayed in the Denon Wing of the Louvre. Its official location is Room 711, the Salle des États, on Level 1 of the Denon Wing.

Leonardo da Vinci’s portrait entered the French royal collection after King Francis I acquired it in the early 16th century. It later became part of the Louvre’s collections when the museum opened during the French Revolution. The painting has moved around the museum and was temporarily evacuated during wartime, but its best-known modern setting has been the Salle des États.

The current room was chosen for the painting in 1966 and specially equipped with a climate-controlled protective case. The Mona Lisa faces Paolo Veronese’s enormous Wedding Feast at Cana, a pairing that surprises visitors because the much larger painting occupies far more wall space.

A common mix-up is confusing the Denon Wing with the Louvre’s other major wings, Sully and Richelieu. The Mona Lisa is not in the Napoleon Wing; “Napoleon” is associated with the Cour Napoléon and the museum’s central pyramid, not the painting’s gallery.