The Fortune Teller 1630

by Georges de La Tour

While an old gypsy crone tells his fortune, a naive youth is robbed by her accomplices, a subject popular among Caravaggesque painters throughout Europe in the seventeenth century. La Tour’s painting can be interpreted as a genre or theatrical scene, or as an allusion to the parable of the prodigal son. The inscription on the painting includes the name of the town where La...

Size:: 40 1/8 x 48 5/8 in. (101.9 x 123.5 cm)
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Credit:: Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
More:: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436838

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