--- title: News Says Leonardo DiCaprio Painted Mona Lisa description: Anchor Shepard Smith attributed the Mona Lisa to DiCaprio canonical: https://time.com/4050430/leonardo-dicaprio-mona-lisa-shepard-smith-fox-news/ author: Entertainment Weekly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-09-25T18:26:15.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:25:14.910Z og:title: News Anchor Says Leonardo DiCaprio Painted Mona Lisa, Is So Close to Being Right og:description: So close, and yet so far og:url: https://time.com/4050430/leonardo-dicaprio-mona-lisa-shepard-smith-fox-news/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt68d31d8da0980540/69869bfd06f2c1676232febb/479600215.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3600 og:image:height: 2025 og:image:alt: 86th Annual Academy Awards - Arrivals og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: News Anchor Says Leonardo DiCaprio Painted Mona Lisa, Is So Close to Being Right twitter:description: So close, and yet so far twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt68d31d8da0980540/69869bfd06f2c1676232febb/479600215.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # News Anchor Says Leonardo DiCaprio Painted Mona Lisa, Is So Close to Being Right by [Danielle Zhu / Entertianment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Danielle Zhu / Entertianment Weekly Sep 25, 2015 6:26 PM UTC  Leonardo DiCaprio Leonardo DiCaprioAxelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic/Getty Images by [Danielle Zhu / Entertianment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Danielle Zhu / Entertianment Weekly Sep 25, 2015 6:26 PM UTC Leonardo DiCaprio just added another impressive feat to his long list of accomplishments: painting the _Mona Lisa_. That is, according to Fox News anchor Shepard Smith, who accidentally attributed the famed painting to the actor rather than to artist Leonardo da Vinci. Smith did not acknowledge the blunder and continued his report on the research in identifying the _Mona Lisa_ model. > [](https://twitter.com/StevensonErin/status/647132816505860097) It’s an understandable verbal miscue – confusing the actor’s similar-sounding name with his 15th-century namesake. (DiCaprio’s mother reportedly named him Leonardo because his first kick in the womb occurred while she admired a da Vinci masterpiece in an Italian museum.) It would’ve hurt more if Smith’s mistake was crediting DiCaprio with an elusive Oscar instead. _This_ [_article_](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/09/25/leonardo-dicaprio-painted-mona-lisa-fox-news) _originally appeared on_ [_EW.com_](http://www.ew.com/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4050430/leonardo-dicaprio-mona-lisa-shepard-smith-fox-news/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4050430/leonardo-dicaprio-mona-lisa-shepard-smith-fox-news/"},"headline":"News Anchor Says Leonardo DiCaprio Painted Mona Lisa, Is So Close to Being Right","datePublished":"2015-09-25T18:26:15.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:25:14.910Z","description":"So close, and yet so far","url":"https://time.com/4050430/leonardo-dicaprio-mona-lisa-shepard-smith-fox-news/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrity"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt68d31d8da0980540/69869bfd06f2c1676232febb/479600215.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Danielle Zhu / Entertianment Weekly"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt68d31d8da0980540/69869bfd06f2c1676232febb/479600215.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"86th Annual Academy Awards - Arrivals","caption":"86th Annual Academy Awards - Arrivals","creditText":"Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4050430/leonardo-dicaprio-mona-lisa-shepard-smith-fox-news/","name":"News Anchor Says Leonardo DiCaprio Painted Mona Lisa, Is So Close to Being Right"}}]}] ```