The painting exhibited at the Center Pompidou-Metz was tagged this Monday, the museum announced. Gustave Courbet’s work was “protected by glass”, again according to the museum.
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“The Origin of the World” is currently on display at the Center Pompidou-Metz. | BENOIT TESSIER / REUTERS ARCHIVES
The work The origin of the world by Courbet (1866) was tagged with red paint on Monday May 6, 2024 at the beginning of the afternoon at the Center Pompidou-Metz, to which it was loaned by the Musée d’Orsay, we learnedAFP at the Metz museum.
The work was “protected by glass”specified to theAFP the museum’s communications department, indicating that the police were on site to carry out analyses.
For several months, several works of art, including The Mona Lisa at the Louvre, were targeted by environmental activists.
Loaned by the Musée d’Orsay
The Origin of the World was created in 1866 by Gustave Courbet. Exhibited since 1995 at the Musée d’Orsay, it was loaned to the Centre-Pompidou-Metz for an exhibition dedicated to the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, the last individual to have owned the painting.
