How did he get in? How did he get out? These were two the the biggest questions the police had during the investigation of the theft. There was one theory that the thief (and his accomplices because some people believed more than one man did it) came into the museum on Sunday and stayed overnight in a closet (D in Illustration) near the Salon Carre (C) where the Mona Lisa hung. Monday morning, he (they) emerged and crossed the Salon to get the Mona Lisa, then went down a service staircase in the nearby room of Italian Primitive paintings (e). He then exited through a courtyard on the ground floor.
An illustrated in a London magazine had a completely different route, where the thief entered through the one of the main doors, climbed the main staircase and entered the Salon Carre that way.
When Peruggia was arrested in December 1913, he told Italian officials what his actual route was. And we reveal that in our film.
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