The management of the establishment says it filed a complaint after the incident which occurred on Thursday. This gesture recalls the actions carried out in recent days by environmental activists in several museums around the world.
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Has the wave of actions by environmentalists in museums reached France? A young woman was prevented on Thursday from throwing soup on a painting in the Musée d’Orsay, the establishment’s management confirmed to franceinfo on Sunday, October 30, after an article by the Parisian.
The museum announces that it has filed a complaint for “attempted degradation”, but refuses to comment further. “An investigation has been opened”the Paris prosecutor’s office told AFP.
According The Parisianthe young woman was aiming for one of Vincent Van Gogh’s most famous paintings, Self-portrait in Saint-Rémy, then tried to refer to a work by Paul Gauguin. The daily claims that she wore a T-shirt in the name of the Just Stop Oil collective. This group of opponents to fossil fuels became famous by throwing soup on the glass protecting The sunflowersby the same Dutch painter, in London.
If it does not detail the course of events, the management of the Musée d’Orsay confirms that the young woman stopped Thursday was carrying a gourd containing soup. Prevented by the agents ensuring the security of the works, she left the premises without being arrested.
On Tuesday, Culture Minister Rima Abdul Malak asked “to all national museums to redouble their vigilance”considering that France was not “safe one day that a fanatical activist attacks a painting”.