{"id":171243,"date":"2025-11-09T10:37:23","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T10:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/171243\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T10:37:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T10:37:23","slug":"teen-tourist-facing-charges-after-dousing-met-museum-masterpiece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/171243\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen Tourist Facing Charges After Dousing Met Museum Masterpiece"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\n\tA teenage tourist is facing charges for allegedly vandalizing centuries-old artworks and tearing tapestries at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/t\/metropolitan-museum-of-art\/\" id=\"auto-tag_metropolitan-museum-of-art\" data-tag=\"metropolitan-museum-of-art\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Metropolitan Museum of Art<\/a> in New York.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\n\tAuthorities said 19-year-old Joshua Vaurin hurled water at the 19th century French oil painting The Princess de Broglie by French portraitist Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres\u2014described as a \u201cmasterpiece\u2019\u2019 by the Met\u2019s online catalog\u2014around 4:30 p.m. on Monday, November 3. Vaurin\u2019s misguided museum tour then moved on to the 16th-century Italian altarpiece Madonna and Child with Saints by Girolamo dai Libri, which was also splashed with water, before ending with him ripping two tapestries. He was taken into custody shortly afterward, investigators said, adding that no injuries were reported.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\tRelated Articles<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/themes\/vip\/pmc-artnews-2019\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/GettyImages-137752107-e1671564723495.jpg\" alt=\"A paining of three women on a ladder picking olives for a tree.\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"\" width=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\n\tVaurin, who was staying at a Times Square hotel, did not give a motive for the vandalism. The New York Post reported that he appeared to be under the influence of an \u201cunknown substance, and was turned over to the police by his mother. He was taken to the hospital before being arraigned on criminal mischief charges,\u201d police said.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/themes\/vip\/pmc-artnews-2019\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/DP-19264-001.jpg\" alt=\"A painting of a woman in a blue gown leaning on a yellow chair.\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"1590\" width=\"1200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tJean Auguste Dominique Ingres, Jos\u00e9phine-\u00c9l\u00e9onore-Marie-Pauline de Galard de Brassac de B\u00e9arn, Princesse de Broglie, 1851\u201353.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMetropolitan Museum of Art<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe Princess de Broglie, a highlight of the Met\u2019s European Paintings collection, was among the last commissions of Neoclassical French artist Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. The painting is celebrated for its seamless brushwork, which imparts a lifelike luminosity to her blue satin and lace gown, offset by jewels of pearl and gold. Ingres was commissioned to paint the portrait by the sitter\u2019s husband Albert de Broglie a few years into their brief marriage; Jos\u00e9phine-\u00c9l\u00e9onore-Marie-Pauline de Galard de Brassac de B\u00e9arn died from tuberculosis soon after the painting was completed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe Met said in a statement that the damage was minor and that repairs are expected to cost around $1,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A teenage tourist is facing charges for allegedly vandalizing centuries-old artworks and tearing tapestries at the Metropolitan Museum&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171244,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[267],"tags":[97875,365,362,363,364,366,18,117,19,17,967],"class_list":{"0":"post-171243","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-art-vandalism","9":"tag-arts","10":"tag-arts-and-design","11":"tag-artsanddesign","12":"tag-artsdesign","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-eire","15":"tag-entertainment","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-metropolitan-museum-of-art"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115519307417119500","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}