France receives request for Mona Lisa to be ‘eliminated’ from Louvre collection

This Thursday, the 25th, the French Court will evaluate an unusual request for the restitution of the Mona Lisa. Although Italian, Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece is in exhibition at the Louvre Museumin France.

As reported by AFP, International Restitutions sent a request to France’s Council of State, the country’s highest administrative court, for the body to “declare the king’s decision non-existent” Francis I to “appropriate” the Mona Lisa.

What draws attention in this case is that the association, which does not reveal where its headquarters are nor that it is part of its management team, claims that it works “on behalf of the descendants of the painter’s heir”.

Furthermore, International Restitutions hopes that ‘La Gioconda’, as the Renaissance artist’s work is also known, will be “eliminated” from the museum’s collection. Louvre Museum. The situation has been the subject of disagreements between France and Italy for years.

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Viable process?

The AFP reports that it is very likely that the request will not be in favor of International Restitutions, as the association has already filed similar requests for paintings with less historical value, but even these actions did not go ahead.