For two years her whereabouts would remain unknown. Then, in November of 1913,an antique dealer received a letter from Vincenzo Perigia a man calling himself “Leonardo Vencenzo.” The Mona Lisa was eventually found very near the spot where she had been conceived four centuries earlier, having been hidden for two years in the humble apartments of her kidnapper only blocks from the Louvre .She rested again now in the Louvre museum under considerably more rigorous security.