What is the name of the famous copy of the Mona Lisa in the Prado?

The famous copy of the Mona Lisa in Madrid’s Prado Museum is called the Prado Mona Lisa.

The painting is a workshop copy of Leonardo da Vinci’s celebrated portrait and depicts the same sitter and composition as the Louvre’s Mona Lisa. It is painted in oil on a walnut panel and has belonged to the Prado since the museum opened in 1819, having come from Spain’s royal collections.

For centuries, the work was treated as an unimportant anonymous copy. A major restoration completed in 2012 removed a dark overpaint that had hidden the landscape behind the figure. Infrared reflectography and radiography then revealed similarities in the underdrawing and alterations shared with Leonardo’s own painting, suggesting that both versions may have been produced in his studio at roughly the same time.

The artist’s identity remains less certain. Salaì and Francesco Melzi, two of Leonardo’s pupils, are often proposed, while other scholars suggest a Spanish student. “Prado Mona Lisa” identifies the painting by its museum, not a separate sitter or location in Italy.