Vito Scotti the 1959 episode "Deadly Tintype" of the NBC Western series, "The Californians". In 1963, Scotti was cast as the Italian farmer Vincenzo Perugia in the episode "The Tenth Mona Lisa" of the CBS anthology series, "General Electric True", hosted by Jack Webb. In the episode, Perugia in 1911 steals the "Mona Lisa" from the Louvre museum in Paris but is apprehended by a French detective when he attempts to unload the painting on an art dealer. He also appeared in television series, such as "How to Marry a Millionaire" (as Jules in the 1958 episode "Loco and the Gambler"), in
A Session of the Painting Jury In the latter half of the 19th century the Salon was an important and popular institution. The French state would acquire some of the paintings shown in the salon's exhibition, which would be hung in the Musée du Luxembourg. The painting was exhibited in the Salon in 1885 and was subsequently acquired by Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau, who later became the Prime Minister of France. Waldeck-Rousseau gave the painting to the Musée du Luxembourg in 1892. It subsequently spent time in the Louvre and the Saint-Denis Museum, Reims, before being assigned to the Musée d'Orsay, Paris, in 1981, where it is still