I know it's not polite to talk about a lady's weight, but some sources say that Mona Lisa was Mona Lotsa.
New York Times writer Walter Littlefield said in a 1913 article that she weighed 212 pounds with the frame.
In a 1932 article in the Saturday Evening Post, journalist Karl Decker shaved a few pounds off that number but was still in the same heavyweight category -- making the painting too heavy for a small man like Peruggia to carry. That's why some people thought he had help.
The clip above is my attempt to show how Decker broke down the 200 pounds.
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