Images of the Mona Lisa painting stained with cake cream after a person stamped a cake on it went viral on Sunday, despite the fact that the cake actually collided with the glass that protects Leonardo da Vinci's work in the Louvre Museum in Paris.

According to witness testimony, the perpetrator was a man in a wheelchair who wore a wig. To the surprise of the other guests, he would have suddenly stood up and approached La Gioconda, throwing the cake at her.

Maybe this is just nuts to me but an man dressed as an old lady jumps out of a wheel chair and attempted to smash the bullet proof glass of the Mona Lisa. Then proceeds to smear cake on the glass, and throws roses everywhere all before being tackled by security. ??? pic.twitter.com/OFXdx9eWcM

— Lukeee (@lukeXC2002) May 29, 2022

Those in charge of the museum's security rushed to eject the man from the room, while the rest of those present continued to photograph the situation nonstop.

The painting, which was created between 1503 and 1519 by Leonardo da Vinci, was unaffected because it was exposed and protected by safety glass, which was where the sweet's remains were impregnated.

And, despite the astonishment of those who were in the museum's most inaccessible room at the time, which is always packed with tourists, the incident did not escalate. As seen in some of the videos shared on social media, Louvre security workers rushed to remove the attacker from the building and clean the glass.

Aquí el momento en que se llevan a quien le aventó un pastel a la Monalisa.pic.twitter.com/HBayMOdcKV

— Alejandro Alemán (@elsalonrojo) May 29, 2022

Not the first attack on the painting

Attempts to deface, steal, or use the 77 by 53 centimeter canvas to raise awareness for various causes have been made throughout history.

A man threw sulfuric acid at it in the 1950s, which had an effect on the painting, and a Bolivian student hit it with a stone. A woman in a wheelchair sprayed red paint on her wheelchair while she was at an exhibition in Tokyo in 1974, expressing her dissatisfaction with the lack of access ramps, though she never reached him.

A Russian tourist threw a cup of tea at him in the summer of 2009. The work was stolen over a century ago, in 1911, and went missing for nearly three years.