Activists from the Riposte Alimentaire collective stuck posters around the board on Wednesday morning Liberty Leading the People At the Louvre. They did not cause any damage to the work of Eugène Delacroix, according to the museum. Two people were arrested for willful damage during a meeting, said a police Source. A complaint was filed by a representative of the museum.
After more than six months of restoration, the famous painting created in 1830 has just been re-exhibited. “Resisting is vital”, we can read on these stickers affixed to the wall, according to the images transmitted by the collective. In front, two of its members briefly chanted slogans in favor of “Sustainable food social security”, with their fists raised.
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Monday, it was the turn of “The Origin of the World”
Riposte Alimentaire (formerly Last Renovation) has already claimed a throw of soup on the glass which protects The Mona Lisa at the Louvre last January.
Other works have been the subject of acts of vandalism or attempted damage in recent times. On Saturday, two activists from the same collective were arrested after throwing orange powder into the hall of mirrors at the Palace of Versailles.
Monday is the table The origin of the world by Courbet (1866) which was tagged with red paint at the Pompidou-Metz center, to which it was loaned by the Musée d’Orsay. Two women claiming an artistic “performance” were indicted for tagging five works in total.
