Of the many versions of the painting, few copies have a more fascinating history than the Hekking Mona Lisa. There’s more than to the Hekking Mona Lisa than being just another Leonardo copy. The Hekking Mona Lisa is not a mechanical reproduction but an authentic 17th-century copy of an iconic image, and it has spades of cultural authority and stories …
The Mona Lisa, housed in the Louvre in Paris, has been copied many times. The most famous of those copies has to be the Hekking Mona Lisa, named after its previous owner, the antiquarian Raymond Hekking. Of the many versions of the painting, few copies have a more fascinating history than the Hekking Mona Lisa. Hekking turned out to be …
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