More than a century ago, a grasshopper found its way to art immortality.
The insect was discovered embedded in Vincent van Gogh's 1889 painting “Olive Trees” by an official at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Mo., the museum announced Monday.
As part of a research project to examine 104 paintings, Mary Schafer, the museum's paintings conservator, noticed under magnification that there was an insect in the “lower foreground of the landscape” of “Olive Trees” that was not visible to the naked eye.
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