Shop art print and framed art La diseuse de Bonne Aventure by Georges de La Tour

La Diseuse de bonne aventure (102 × 123 cm) is an oil on canvas by the Lorraine painter Georges de La Tour, currently on show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and executed between 1635 and 1638 according to Jacques Thuillier, and between 1632 and 1635 according to Pierre Rosenberg. This painting, which reappeared in 1945, has been at the centre of two controversies, the first in France, denouncing its acquisition by an American museum in 1960, and the second casting doubt on its authenticity, first in 1970 and then in the early 1980s, though this has not dented its reputation as one of La Tour's absolute masterpieces - at least as far as his daytime paintings are concerned. Signed at the top right of the frame "G. De La Tour Fecit Lunevillæ Lothar:" ("G[eorges] de La Tour [le] fait, à Lunéville, Lorraine"), the painting takes up the Caravaggesque theme of the fortune-teller, depicting a young man being told his fortune by an old gypsy woman, while the three other women around him take advantage of his inattention to rob him. In horizontal format, this genre scene shows five figures framed at mid-body. Four women, obviously gypsies, surround a young man. The one furthest to the right, the oldest, is telling him his fortune and is taking up all his attention, while the other three are robbing him. The scene, lit by an out-of-frame light source in the top right-hand corner, displays a general harmony of colours, with a variation of browns and reds that is [...]

 

This artwork is a painting from the classical period. It belongs to the baroque style.

 

« La diseuse de Bonne Aventure » is kept at Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

 

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