If you look carefully you can see the Mona Lisa smiling right down the back of the gallery.

I did push through the throng at one stage and then retreated to take this photo. 1000’s of other devotees had the same idea. It was a little like a football scrum.
A man in front of me with rather bad body odor insisted on filming himself with the painting, it was an amazing feat, but rather off putting as the crowd pushed forward and I was caught in the between the Steven Spielberg wanna be and the rest of the troops….