Apple CEO Tim Cook saw iPhone in the picture of the Dutch painter painted several centuries ago.

The day before Apple CEO Tim Cook visited Amsterdam where he spoke at the Start-up Fest.  Answering the question when the first iPhone was created Cook answered that he thought he knew until last night but after he visited Amsterdam he had suspicions that the first "apple" smartphone had been invented in the 17th century, CNBC reported. 

Tim explained that the day before he visited Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum where he saw pictures of great masters of the last centuries. He also saw iPhone on Rembrandt's painting.

He  showed the journalists a photo of a painting in which, in his opinion, great-great-grandfather of the modern smartphone is represented.

"It's tough to see but I swear it's there," Cook said.

After the story was published, the users of social networks began searching for the iPhone on the paintings presented in the Rijksmuseum, and found the canvas, which Cook said. But the Apple CEO was mistaken a little - the subject resembling a popular gadget of the 21st century, was not represented in Rembrandt's painting, but in a painting of other famous Dutch painter - Pieter de Hooch.

This canvas is painted in 1670 and is entitled “Man Hands a Letter to a Woman in the Entrance Hall”  the man was holding not the "apple" smartphone but a folded sheet of paper. However, Cook's joke about the history of the iPhone became one of the most talked about in social networks yesterday.