Musée d’Orsay in Paris says painting was target of another attempted soup attack
- Le Parisien newspaper reported the attacker was wearing a Just Stop Oil T-shirt, as other activists have worn during similar stunts in recent weeks
- Elsewhere on Sunday, climate activists struck the cultural sector in Berlin again, targeting a dinosaur skeleton at the Natural History Museum
A young woman tried to throw soup at a painting at the world-famous Musée d’Orsay in Paris this week, the museum confirmed on Sunday, in a similar attack to others by climate activists in Europe.
The museum refused to say which painting was targeted but it is home to artwork by some of the most famous European artists including Paul Cézanne, Paul Gaugin, Vincent van Gogh, Edouard Manet and Claude Monet.
The museum said it had filed a legal complaint for the “attempt to damage a piece of work” after the female activist was intercepted on Thursday, confirming a report in Le Parisien newspaper.
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The Paris prosecutor’s office said police had opened an investigation after the complaint.
According to Le Parisien, the woman had initially tried to approach the 1889 Van Gogh self-portrait at Saint-Remy before attempting to throw soup at a painting by Gaugin.
The newspaper reported she was wearing a “Just Stop Oil” T-shirt, as others have worn during similar stunts in recent weeks.
Elsewhere, activists on Sunday struck the cultural sector in Berlin again, targeting a dinosaur skeleton at the Natural History Museum and throwing liquid at a glassed-in painting at the Alte Nationalgalerie (Old National Gallery) in separate incidents.