A 19-year-old from Texas, Joshua Vavrin was arrested on November 3, after splashing waters on several artworks at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Vavrin was apparently under the influence of an unidentified narcotic sunstance.
The French artist Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres’ “Princesse de Brogile,” an oil painting that is almost 200 years old, and the Italian artist Girolamo dai Libri’s “Madonna and Child with Saints,” an oil and tempera painting that is more than 500 years old, were among the affected paintings, Daily News reports
Vavrin was charged with criminal mischief after witnesses reported him to police for attacking several artworks of art inside the museum at Fifth Avenue and E. 82nd Street on the Upper East Side at approximately 4:40 p.m., according to the police.
