The Fortune Teller
1630
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 Tour lived, Lunéville in Lorraine. (Source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
- Size:
- 40 1/8 x 48 5/8 in. (101.9 x 123.5 cm)
- Medium:
- Oil on canvas
- License:
- Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- For more:
- https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436838
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Created by
Georges de La Tour
Artist (France)
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Uploaded by
Felicia Gutmans
Conservator (15,855)
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