Art fans baffled as woman in 150 year-old painting 'appears to be using iPhone'
dailyrecord.co.ukA 150-year old painting has left art lovers speculating, as its subject appears to be scrolling on an iPhone. The image of the young woman walking through country path with the supposed device features in The Expected One - painted by Ferdinand George Waldmüller in the 1860s.
The oil painting depicts a man crouching in the shade with a flower as the lady walks in his direction, totally engrossed in what she's holding.While this sounds like typical scene from the time, viewers with modern eyes have joked that the image is the work of time-travel, with the artist learning of the electronic in the future.
Unfortunately, those hopeful of this theory will be disappointed to hear that experts have offered a more realistic explanation, reports the Mirror.
The painting first went viral online back in 2017 while hanging at the Neue Pinakothek Museum in Munich, Germany.At the time, people remarked that the woman was ignoring the man because she was probably swiping on Tinder.
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