A 150-year-old painting of a woman has left art lovers baffled as she appears to be playing with an iPhone while walking along in the middle of the picture.
The Expected One, which Ferdinand George Waldmüller painted in the 1860s and now viewed with modern eyes, looks like she is completely engrossed with the item she is holding.
The woman walks, seemingly disconnected from the world around her, as a man crouches clutching a flower in the foreground.
She walks in the sun while he kneels in the shade.
The image first rose to internet stardom in 2017 while it hung at the Neue Pinakothek Museum in Munich, Germany, with people joking she was ignoring the bloke because she was probably swiping on Tinder.
The image actually shows the woman focusing deeply on her hymn book, her devotion to God far greater than the mortal man and his Earthly desires.
This slightly disappointing titbit of information comes from the gallery itself, and will no doubt be a shock to people convinced the painting is evidence of time travel.
Speaking to Motherboard, the man who first spotted that it looks like she’s flicking through Insta, Peter Russell, said: "What strikes me most is how much a change in technology has [changed] the interpretation of the painting, and in a way has leveraged its entire context."
He added: "The big change is that in 1850 or 1860, every single viewer would have identified the item that the girl is absorbed in as a hymnal or prayer book.
"Today, no one could fail to see the resemblance to the scene of a teenage girl absorbed in social media on their smartphone."
