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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).
Basket of Fruit, c. 1595–1596, oil on canvas, Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, Milan. Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi or Amerighi) was born in Milan, where his father, Fermo (Fermo Merixio), was a household administrator and architect-decorator to the marquess of Caravaggio, a town 35 km (22 mi) to the east of Milan and south of Bergamo. [7]
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 attribution of this version to Caravaggio has been widely accepted, although in 2014 it became the subject of a legal dispute. [7] This suggested that Caravaggio might have painted at least two versions of the work, as he is believed to have done with Boy Bitten by a Lizard, The Fortune Teller, and The Lute Player.
Caravaggio, born Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (also Michele Angelo Merigi or Amerighi da Caravaggio; / ˌ k ær ə ˈ v æ dʒ i oʊ /, US: /-ˈ v ɑː dʒ (i) oʊ /; Italian: [mikeˈlandʒelo meˈriːzi da (k)karaˈvaddʒo]; 29 September 1571 [1] – 18 July 1610), was an Italian painter active in Rome for most of his artistic life.
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Mario Minniti, a Sicilian painter and friend of Caravaggio's, would be represented in the young man with a feathered hat in the center of the Calling, as well as in the left margin of the Martyrdom, still wearing a feathered hat, as perhaps in one of the two versions of the Fortune Teller and the Lute Player. [2]