The painting, ‘Man Handing a Letter to a Woman in the Entrance Hall of a House’, makes up for its less-than-catchy name with its time travelling intrigue, after eagle eyed viewers claimed to have spotted an iPhone in it.
The work, painted by Pieter de Hooch in 1670, allegedly features a woman holding the Apple device – around 350 years before they were invented.
And speculation is rife after Apple CEO Tim Cook commented on the oil masterpiece, which supposedly proves that someone took the smartphone back in time.
He said: “I always thought I knew when the iPhone was invented, but now I’m not so sure anymore.”
He discovered the painting, which describes the ‘iPhone’ as a letter, whilst visiting Amsterdam for Start-up Fest Europe.
He visited the museum where the painting is on display, adding that the ‘iPhone’ did resemble the product invented by his firm in 2007.
But some sceptics aren’t convinced that someone could possibly transport an iPhone back in time.
Apparently, a more likely explanation is that the device in the painting is not an iPhone, but an old school iPod with a click wheel.
iPods may be well behind the times nowadays, but we’re not sure whether they are so ancient that they could feasibly crop up in the 1670s.
Remarkably, this isn’t even the first time that a smartphone has cropped up before it was even invented.
Earlier this month, footage of a time-travelling boxing fan raised eyebrows after it was claimed that this picture shows a spectator holding a smartphone at a 1995 Mike Tyson bout.
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