2 French women charged for spray-painting "MeToo" on Gustave Courbet's "The Origin of the World" at Musee d'Orsay.

A top French museum, Musee d'Orsay, has filed a police complaint after two women spray-painted "MeToo" on Gustave Courbet's famous 19th-century painting, "The Origin of the World," which was on loan to another gallery. The museum said the painting would not return to the Metz exhibition that closes in May. The women have been charged with spraying the words "MeToo" on the nude painting and four other works.

May 10, 2024
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