On October 28, 1911, this item was published in the San Antonio Express...
"There is no surprise to us in the report from Paris that more people gather to stare at the vacant space on the wall of the Louvre, where Da Vinci's stolen portrait, Mona Lisa hung, than ever before had gathered there to see the picture."
The theft actually brought thousands of looky-loos into the Louvre just for that reason. So attendance was up. And it was months before the Louvre filled the spot the Mona Lisa had with this guy --
Raphael's Baldassare Castiglione, painted in 1514-1515. It was said Raphael modeled the pose after the Mona Lisa.
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