Europe 1 with AFP 10:02 p.m., October 30, 2022
Once again, a "Just Stop Oil" activist tried to deface a painting, but this time without success.
At the Musée d'Orsay, a woman wanted to stick her face to a self-portrait by Van Gogh before trying to throw soup at a painting by Gauguin.
She was arrested before acting.
The Musée d'Orsay filed a complaint for "attempt to degrade a work" after preventing a young girl from throwing soup on a painting on Thursday, he announced to AFP on Sunday, confirming information from the daily. The Parisian.
"Following the filing of a complaint for acts qualified as attempted degradation filed by the Musée d'Orsay, an investigation was opened" and entrusted to the police station of the 7th arrondissement, the Paris prosecutor's office told AFP. .
Van Gogh and Gauguin were the target of the activist
If the museum does not wish to communicate on the identity of the painting in question, Le Parisien affirms that the young girl first intended to stick her face on the famous painting by Vincent Van Gogh
Self-portrait in Saint-Rémy
before, since she had been prevented from trying to throw soup on a canvas by Gauguin.
This action comes on the heels of other similar acts in recent weeks in Europe, while voices from the art world condemn, from Paris to New York, these acts of "vandalism".
Environmental activists thus threw tomato soup on the glass plate protecting Van Gogh's
Sunflowers
at the National Gallery in London and others, in Germany, smeared mashed potatoes on the glass protecting
Les Meules
, a painting by Claude Monet.
The Girl with a Pearl Earring
, a famous painting by Johannes Vermeer, was returned to its place on Friday in a Dutch museum after being targeted by three activists from the "Just Stop Oil" collective last Thursday, without being damaged.
France is not "sheltered one day that a frenzied activist attacks an" unprotected painting, had warned last Tuesday the Minister of Culture Rima Abdul Malak, asking "all national museums to redouble their vigilance ".