Is the woman in this 19th century painting looking at a cell phone?

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His name is “The Expected Person” (“Expected”)painted 1860 By Austrian Ferdinand George Waldmüller and now everyone is talking about him because many people think that the hero of this painting is a mobile phone.

On social networks, they are already talking about that young woman walking like a woman in the countryside. “time Traveler”since the first smartphone was launched in 1992.

The truth is that, sucked by looking at the object in handany teenager walking down the street and staring at the screen of their phone, as you see them today.

Painting “Waiting for Woman” Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller

Art critics consulted by the British media Daily Star You were quick to make sure it wasn’t just any technological device you had. a prayer book.

The canvas is on display in the museum Neue Pinakothek Along with hundreds of paintings from Munich, from the 18th and 19th centuries.

As some users sarcastically noted on social networks, today the detail where you can see a young man ready to woo him in the lower right corner of the picture… with a flower in hand.

It’s not the first time the public has thought they can identify a smartphone. artwork It goes way back to the invention of technology that changed our lives so much and our vision of everything.

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