A catalogue of incidents at the world's most visited museum have placed museum bosses come under increasing scrutiny.
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Water damage was discovered in room 707, also known as the "Duchâtel" room, late on Thursday night, the museum said. The room houses multiple 15th and 16th Century artworks.
The museum said the leak - from a heating pipe - was stopped shortly after midnight and the only painting damaged was Charles Meynier's The Apotheosis of Poussin, Le Sueur and Le Brun.
It comes a day after French police reportedly detained nine people - including two museum staff - over a suspected ticket fraud scheme.
Museum bosses have come under increasing scrutiny in recent months, after thieves stole priceless French crown jewels from the museum in broad daylight and hundreds of books were damaged in a leak.
The Louvre said Thursday night's leak occurred at the entrance to the paintings department in the Denon wing.
It said firefighters responded "immediately" and the leak was stopped 40 minutes after it began.
A painting restorer inspected Meynier's ceiling painting on Friday morning and found it had "two tears in the same area, caused by the water, and the paint layer on the ceiling and its arches has lifted".
The ceiling painting, signed by Meynier in 1822, depicts lauded French painters Nicolas Poussin, Eustache Le Sueur, and Charles Le Brun, who appear in the clouds among angelic figures.
Rooms 706, 707 and 708 in the Denon wing on the building's first floor were closed on Friday morning, but are expected to reopen later in the day.
The chief architect of historic monuments also came to assess the condition of the ceiling, the Louvre said, but found there were no structural problems.
A union representative told news agency Reuters that scaffolding had been erected in the affected area.
The cost of the damage to the painting and the building remains unclear.
This leak is the latest in a long series of problems faced by the museum, which is the most visited in the world, in the recent past.
In December, 300-400 pieces, mostly books, were damaged by a leak in the Louvre's Eg
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