The Musée d'Orsay filed a complaint for "attempt to degrade a work" after preventing a young girl from throwing soup on a painting on Thursday, he told AFP on Sunday, confirming information of the daily newspaper Le Parisien.

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"Following the filing of a complaint for acts qualified as attempted degradation filed by the Musée d'Orsay, an investigation was opened" and entrusted to the police station of the 7th arrondissement, the Paris prosecutor's office told AFP. .

If the museum does not wish to communicate the title of the painting in question, Le Parisien affirms that the young girl first intended to stick her face on the famous canvas of Vincent Van Gogh Self-portrait in Saint-Rémy before, since she had been prevented from trying to throw soup on a Gauguin canvas.

This action comes on the heels of similar acts in recent weeks in Europe, acts of “vandalism” that voices from the art world condemn from Paris to New York.

Environmental activists threw tomato soup on the glass plate protecting Van Gogh's Sunflowers at the National Gallery in London, and others in Germany smeared mashed potatoes on the glass protecting Les Millstones, a painting by Claude Monet.

The Girl with a Pearl Earring, a famous painting by Johannes Vermeer, was returned to its place in a Dutch museum on Friday after being targeted by three activists from the Just Stop Oil collective last Thursday, without being damaged.

France is not "sheltered one day that a frenzied activist attacks an unprotected painting", had warned the Minister of Culture Rima Abdul Malak last Tuesday, asking "all national museums to redouble their vigilance" .