Who painted “The Fortune Teller”?

“The Fortune Teller” was painted by Georges de La Tour in 1630. Where to see it: Metropolitan Museum of Art.

What to look for

Georges de La Tour: candlelight in darkness, smooth, simplified faces and stillness; card sharps and penitent Magdalenes.

Georges de La Tour (13 March 1593 – 30 January 1652) was a French Baroque painter, who spent most of his working life in the Duchy of Lorraine, which was temporarily absorbed into France between 1641 and 1648. Wikipedia

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More by Georges de La Tour

“The Cheat with the Ace of Diamonds”, 1635
“Saint Sebastian Attended by Saint Irene”, 1649
“Joseph the Carpenter”, 1642
“Magdalene with the Smoking Flame”, 1642
“The Penitent Magdalen”, 1640
“The Newborn”, 1645
“The Dream of Saint Joseph”, 1600–1649
“The Repentant Magdalen”, 1637