Georges de La Tour, 1630 - The Fortune-Teller - fine art print

What does the original artwork description of the The Metropolitan Museum of Art write about the 17th century work of art from the painter Georges de La Tour? (© - by The Metropolitan Museum of Art - The Metropolitan Museum of Art)

This celebrated painting, which was only discovered in the middle of the twentieth century, catches the moment when a wealthy young man, distracted by having his fortune told by an old gyspy woman, is robbed by her companions. The costume and composition may have been influenced by a theatrical scene, but such cautionary images, made popular by Caravaggio, were painted throughout Europe in the seventeenth century. Although scholars have debated whether the artist had seen Caravaggio’s work in Rome, the inscription in the right corner includes the name of the town where the artist lived in northeastern France.

Background data about the original artpiece

Artist information

The product specifications

Pick your item material option

In the dropdown lists next to the article you can select your prefered material and size. We allow yout to choose among the following variants:

• Poster (canvas material): The Artprinta poster print is a UV printed canvas paper with a granular surface finish, which reminds the original work of art. Please bear in mind, that depending on the size of the poster we add a white margin of around 2-6cm around the work of art to facilitate the framing with a custom frame.
• Glossy acrylic glass print (with real glass coating): An print on acrylic glass, often referenced as a plexiglass print, will convert your favorite original work of art into brilliant décor. Additionally, it is a good alternative to dibond or canvas prints.
• The canvas print: A canvas print, not to be confused with a canvas painting, is a digital image printed on a UV direct printer. In addition to that, a canvas makes a cosy and appealing atmosphere. A canvas print has the advantage of being low in weight, which means that it is easy to hang the Canvas print without any wall-mounts. Therefore, canvas prints are suitable for any type of wall in your home.
• Aluminium dibond print: Aluminium Dibond prints are metal prints with a true depth. For your Direct Print On Aluminum Dibond, we print the artwork on the aluminium surface. The white and bright components of the artpiece shine with a silk gloss, however without any glow. Colors are luminous, the fine details are crisp.

The 17th century artpiece was created by Georges de La Tour in 1630. The original of the painting had the size: 40 1/8 x 48 5/8 in (101,9 x 123,5 cm). Oil on canvas was applied by the artist as the technique for the work of art. Moveover, the work of art belongs to the The Metropolitan Museum of Art's digital art collection, which is one of the world's largest and finest art museums, which includes more than two million works of art spanning five thousand years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe.. With courtesy of - The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Rogers Fund, 1960 (public domain license). Creditline of the artwork: Rogers Fund, 1960. What is more, the alignment of the digital reproduction is landscape and has an aspect ratio of 1.2 : 1, meaning that the length is 20% longer than the width. Georges de La Tour was a painter of French nationality, whose style can be attributed primarily to Baroque. The French painter was born in 1593 in Vic-sur-Seille, Grand Est, France and deceased at the age of 60 in the year 1653 in Luneville, Grand Est, France.

Important information: We try whatever we can in order to describe our products in as much detail as possible and to showcase them visually in our shop. However, the pigments of the print products, as well as the printing can differ to a certain extent from the representation on the monitor. Depending on the screen settings and the condition of the surface, colors can unfortunately not be printed as exactly as the digital version shown here. Given that all our fine art prints are processed and printed manually, there might as well be minor deviations in the motif's size and exact position.

Copyright © | Artprinta (www.artprinta.com)