A Fortune-Teller

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A Fortune-Teller
Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792) - A Fortune-Teller - 690 - Waddesdon Manor.jpg
Artist Joshua Reynolds
Year1777
Type Oil on canvas, genre painting
Dimensions124.5 cm× 147.5 cm(49.0 in× 58.1 in)
Location Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire

A Fortune-Teller is a 1777 genre painting by the British artist Joshua Reynolds. [1] It presents a gipsy fortune teller reading the palm of a woman with a young girl perched on her lap. Reynolds, the first President of the Royal Academy was well-known for his portraits but increasingly branched out into other genres including history. With this painting he may have been making reference to a work of Caravaggio It was displayed at the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1777 at Pall Mall. Today the original is at Waddesdon Manor in Buckinghamshire. [2] Other versions of the work exist, notably a 1781 painting now in the collection of Kenwood House in Highgate. [3]

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