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A teen hurled water at two renowned centuries-old paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and ripped tapestries off the wall in a bizarre tantrum, authorities and law-enforcement sources said Tuesday.
Joshua Vavrin, 19, of Texas appeared to be under the influence of an “unknown substance’’ — and was turned over by his mother, sources said.
Vavrin doused the 19th century oil-on-canvas “Princesse de Broglie,” by French portraitist Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres — hailed as a “masterpiece’’ by the Met on its Web site — in a 4:50 p.m. frenzy Monday inside the iconic Fifth Avenue museum in Manhattan, cops and sources said.
He also splashed the 16th century altarpiece “Madonna and Child with Saints” by Girolamo dai Libri, sources said.
During his rampage, Vavrin ripped two historic tapestries off the wall, too, sources said.
He allegedly caused $1,000 in damage per artwork and charged with criminal mischief, cops and sources said.
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