Louis Béroud

Louis Béroud (1852, 1930) was a French painter celebrated for his meticulously detailed interior scenes of the Louvre and other Parisian museums, often depicting visitors studying or copying masterworks. He is perhaps most famously known for discovering the theft of the Mona Lisa in 1911 when he arrived to paint it and found it missing. His work bridges academic realism and a unique documentary approach to capturing the cultural life of Parisian art institutions.