Cats Hole

Construction workers accidentally drilled a hole through a 17th-century painting worth euro 250,000 while renovating the Dutch upper house of parliament, officials said Friday.
The painting, a Portrait of Jacob Cats by Baroque Dutch painter Ludolf de Jongh, was on loan from the Hague Museum.
The accident occurred a "couple of weeks ago" when the 1679 painting, which had been taken down and was leaning up against a wall in the legislature's Noon Hall, was pierced by workers who drilled through from the next room.
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