A Monet painting which was badly damaged in the National Gallery has returned to display at the museum. 'Argenteuil Basin with a Single Sailboat' was torn badly by a visitor to the gallery on June 29th 2012.
The €10 million painting has now been restored after 18 months of repair work and will be kept behind glass.
The 1874 canvas had been perforated and there was an extensive three-branched tear in it.
The damage caused to the painting
The Gallery says fragments of paint and priming layers had also been lost from around the site of the damage.
A man (48) faces re-trail over the incident after a jury failed to convict him last December.
Director of the National Gallery, Sean Rainbird, explained the restoration process to The Pat Kenny Show here on Newstalk.
Conservation of the painting was carried out by Simone Mancini, Head of Conservation, Ele von Monschaw, Paintings Conservator, and Pearl O'Sullivan, Claude Monet Paintings Conservation Fellow.
