An activist arrested after covering the painting “Les Coquelicots” by Claude Monet, at the Musée d’Orsay

An environmental activist from Riposte Alimentaire covered the painting Poppies by Claude Monet, Saturday June 1 at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, according to a video published by the collective on was arrested after carrying out her action, Agence Radio France learned from a police source. In the video, we see a woman presenting herself as a “committed citizen” stick an adhesive poster on the flowery impressionist landscape “representing a field of poppies in 2100”.

“This nightmarish picture before us is what awaits us if no alternative is put in place! At +4°C, hell awaits us”justifies the activist, dressed in a t-shirt bearing the inscription “+4°C”, in reference to the rise in temperature predicted by the government in France by 2100. Requested by AFP on possible attacks on the work, which was not protected by glass, the Musée d’Orsay did not react at this stage.

The climate activist movement Food Response (formerly Last Renovation), which defends sustainable food, has been increasing its actions for several months. He claimed a jet of soup on the glass which protects The Mona Lisa at the Louvre in January, then against the painting Spring by Monet at the Museum of Fine Arts in Lyon, in February.

On May 8, its activists stuck posters around Liberty Leading the People by Eugène Delacroix at the Louvre Museum. Already in April, at the Musée d’Orsay, two of its activists, arrested at the entrance on suspicion of wanting to take action, were placed in police custody.