Focus on The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne (Leonardo) and analyze the 2011 cleaning controversy.
On 7 October 2011 Le Journal des arts, a Paris art publication, reported that the restoration posed more danger to the painting than was previously expected. In late December 2011 and early January 2012 reports emerged that Ségolène Bergeon Langle, the former director of conservation for the Louvre and France's national museums, and Jean-Pierre Cuzin, the former director of paintings at the Louvre, both of the advisory committee supervising the painting's restoration, had resigned over a painting cleaning controversy, with critics claiming that the painting has been damaged by being cleaned so it became brighter than the artist ever intended.
Other experts spoke out in favour of the cleaning treatment.
Le Journal des arts Louvre Paris