Mona Lisa he stresses that the images never existed. Kemp is also adamant that Cotte’s images in no way establish the existence of a separate underlying portrait. On 21 August 1911, the painting was stolen from the Louvre. The theft was not discovered until the next day, when painter Louis Béroud walked into the museum and went to the Salon Carré where the "Mona Lisa" had been on display for five years, only to find four iron pegs on the wall. Béroud contacted the head of the guards, who thought the painting was being photographed for promotional purposes. A few hours later,
Ship of Fools (painting) wood from the same tree. The two to eight years between the felling of the tree and its use as a painting substrate allows "The Ship of Fools" to be a direct satire of a frontispiece of Sebastian Brant's book. Ship of Fools (painting) Ship of Fools (painted c. 1490–1500) is a painting by Hieronymus Bosch, now on display in the Musée du Louvre, Paris. The surviving painting is a fragment of a triptych that was cut into several parts. "The Ship of Fools" was painted on one of the wings of the altarpiece, and is about two thirds of