A French town demands from Madonna a painting that disappeared during a bombing raid in World War I

May Madonna have a French work in your home disappeared during World War I? This is what the mayor of the city of Amiens, Brigitte Fouré, suggests, who, after seeing a picture of the American singer in a photograph that seemed familiar to her, has launched a petition to the artist.

Apparently, as the mayor explains in a video that she has recorded from the town hall, Madonna could have a painting identical to a work that was exhibited in the Amiens Museum, on loan from the Louvre in Paris, until disappeared during a German bombing raid in 1918, near the end of World War I. He believes it was stolen and is now asking the pop star to consider returning it.

It’s all about the play’Diana and Endymion‘, made in 1822 by the French neoclassical painter Jérôme Marin Langlois (1779-1838). Madonna would have bought this painting at Sotheby’s for $1.3 million and would have posed next to it on her Instagram profile. However, this photo cannot be seen now since she has deleted all the photos from her account to leave only those that have to do with the new tour that she has just announced.

In this image you can see that the box is identical to the missing one, but some measurements made from them show that he lacks three centimeters in height. According to some experts, if it is the original work, that part would have been removed to eliminate the date and the author’s signature.

The mayoress, questioning Maddona, assures that “there is a special bond” between her and her city. She adds that Amiens will be a candidate for the European Capital of Culture in 2028, so she would like that “for this reason you can lend us that painting.”

However, the public channel ‘France 3’ warns that if the work reached French soil, it could never leave the country againsince the works that belong to the French State cannot be sold.