The Fortune Teller

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, c. 1594

Oil on canvas, 115 × 150 cm

Musei Capitolini, Rome

Room I · The Early Years (c. 1592–1597)

A young Romani woman reads the palm of a well-dressed youth and, while holding his gaze, slips the ring off his finger. A life-size scene of street life, a new kind of picture that Caravaggio painted again in a second version, now in the Louvre.