A climate activist has been arrested for sticking an adhesive poster on a Monet painting at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris to draw attention to global heating, a police source said.
The action by the woman, a member of Riposte Alimentaire (Food Response) – a group of environmental activists and defenders of sustainable food production – was seen in a video posted on X, placing a blood-red poster over Coquelicots (Poppies) by the French impressionist painter Claude Monet.
In the video she said of the poster covering Monet’s art that “this nightmarish image awaits us if no alternative is put in place”.
Monet’s painting, completed in 1873, shows people with umbrellas strolling in a blooming poppy field.
Note that it was not protected by glass. The Musée d’Orsay did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the condition of the painting after the attack.
