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The Fortune Teller is a painting by Italian Baroque artist Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. It exists in two versions, both by Caravaggio, the first from c. 1594 (now in the Musei Capitolini in Rome), the second from c. 1595 (which is in the Louvre museum, Paris). The dates in both cases are disputed.
The Fortune Teller, also known as the Fortune Teller with Soldiers, is an oil on canvas painting dating to approximately 1620 by French painter, Valentin de Boulogne, a follower of Caravaggio. It is now held in the Toledo Museum of Art, in Toledo, Ohio.
The art dealer Georges Wildenstein outbid the museum, however, purchasing the painting in 1949 for 7.5 million francs. For a decade it remained with the dealer, until in 1960 the Metropolitan Museum of Art paid an undisclosed but "very high sum of money" [1] for The Fortune Teller.
Josephine and the Fortune-Teller is an 1837 history painting by the British artist David Wilkie. [1] It depicts a story about the young Joséphine de Beauharnais visiting a fortune teller on her native island of Martinique , who predicts her future in France as the wife of Emperor Napoleon .
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The Fortune Teller (1895) by Art Nouveau painter Mikhail Vrubel, depicting a cartomancer The Cartomancer fortune-teller (c. 1508, Lucas van Leyden) Cartomancy is fortune-telling or divination using a deck of cards. Forms of cartomancy appeared soon after playing cards were introduced into Europe in the 14th century. [1]
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La Tour's early work shows influences from Caravaggio, probably via his Dutch followers, and the genre scenes of cheats—as in The Fortune Teller—and fighting beggars clearly derive from the Dutch Caravaggisti, and probably also his fellow-Lorrainer, Jacques Bellange. These are believed to date from relatively early in his career.