Vermeer’s ‘Woman with a Pearl Earring’ again on show

“We’re extremely grateful that ‘The Woman’ remained undamaged and is again in her acquainted place so rapidly,” the museum’s director, Martine Gosselink, mentioned in a press release.

A video posted Thursday on Twitter confirmed a person pouring a crimson substance from a can over one other protester who appeared to aim to attach his head to the glass-protected portray. The second man caught his hand to the panel holding the painting.

The painting was faraway from the wall and completely checked within the museum’s conservation studio. It went again on wall Friday afternoon.

Police arrested three individuals for “public violence in opposition to property.” Their identities weren’t launched, in step with Dutch privateness guidelines.

Earlier this month, local weather protesters threw mashed potatoes at a Claude Monet portray in a German museum. Different protesters threw soup over Vincent van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” at London’s Nationwide Gallery. In each instances, the work had been undamaged.

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