The work, protected by a window, has not been damaged and will be visible “as soon as possible,” said the Mauritshuis museum of The Hague.
Le Monde
Three people were arrested Thursday, October 27, by Dutch police after environmental activists targeted the painting The young girl at the pearl of Johannes Vermeer, learned the agency France-Presse (AFP) to the museum Mauritshuis de la Haye and the police.
Two people got closer to the table and a third threw an unknown substance on it, but the work, protected under glass, was not damaged, the Mauritshuis said in a press release to AFP. Images on social networks showed activists wearing Just Stop Oil t-shirts.
This action occurs in the process of other acts of vandalism in recent weeks. Ecologists activists have thus projected tomato soup on the sun gogh sunflowers at the National Gallery in London and coated with potato puree a table by Claude Monet in Germany.
a “substance Unknown “thrown on the table
“At around 2 pm, two people stuck to the girl’s earring to the pearl of Johannes Vermeer, Mauritshuis reported in a press release to AFP. A person stuck his head on the board , which was protected by a window, and the other person stuck their hand to the wall where the table is hung. A third person threw an unknown substance on the table. “
“Our experts immediately inspected the table. Fortunately, it was not damaged.” The table again visible “as soon as possible,” said the museum. “Art cannot defend itself, and try to damage it for any cause, is something that we condemn firmly,” added Mauritshuis. Police of the Hague said on Twitter having stopped three people in a museum for “public violence against goods”.
Dozens of people were gathered inside the museum pending information on this incident, while security agents prevented them from approaching too close to other paintings, noted a journalist from the ‘AFP.
The entrance to the room where the pearl girl is normally located was blocked by a large reproduction of oil paint and a guard said that she would probably be closed for the rest of the day. Two police vans were parked in front of the museum while the investigation continued.