Activists from the Riposte Alimentaire collective stuck posters on Wednesday morning around the painting “Liberty Leading the People” by Eugène Delacroix at the Louvre Museum, without causing any damage, according to corroborating sources cited by AFP.
“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.
“The work did not suffer any damage,” Le Louvre told AFP, without further comment. After more than six months of restoration, the famous painting created in 1830 has just been re-exhibited.
Riposte Alimentaire (formerly Last Renovation) has already claimed responsibility for throwing soup on the window that 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.
On Monday, Courbet’s painting “The Origin of the World” (1866) was spray painted 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.