Grasshopper discovered in a Van Gogh painting

Curious discovery in a Van Gogh painting: thanks to the help of a microscope, a grasshopper was found on the canvas"Olive trees."
The painting was made in 1889 and is now kept at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City.

The grasshopper has remained hidden from our eyes all these years, blending in among the green and brown colors on the canvas.

According to Mary Schafer, the museum curator who made the discovery, it would not be unusual to find this type of material in paint, but the grasshopper’s discovery says a lot about the artist’s style of painting. Finding natural materials such as sand grains and leaf fragments is quite common in paintings done en plein air, but the insect discovered is only a few millimeters long and its body appears partially damaged, with no thorax or abdomen.

Source: The Republic

Image: Vincent van Gogh, Olive trees (1889; Kansas City, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art)

Grasshopper discovered in a Van Gogh painting

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