Two people approached the painting and a third threw an unknown substance on it, but the work, protected under glass, was not damaged, the Dutch museum Mauritshuis said on Thursday.
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A new work of art aimed. Three people were arrested on Thursday, October 27, by Dutch police for “public violence against property” after environmental activists targeted the painting The Girl with a Pearl Earring by Johannes Vermeer, the Mauritshuis museum in The Hague (Netherlands) and the police told AFP.
Two people approached the painting and a third threw an unknown substance on it, but the work, protected under glass, was not damaged, the Mauritshuis said in a statement to AFP. Images on social media showed activists wearing “Just Stop Oil” t-shirts.
The group Just Stop Oil launched a series of daily actions and blockades in early October in London, where they notably threw soup on the board The sunflowers by Van Gogh (protected by glass) at the National Gallery, doused an Aston Martin dealership in paint, or tarred the wax statue of King Charles III at Madame Tussauds.