Cage, Fortune Teller is an oil painting of circa 1630 by the French artist Georges de La Tour. The work was uncovered in about 1960 and purchased that year by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Its authenticity has been questioned in the intervening years, notably by the English art historian Christopher Wright, but Cage, Fortune Teller is generally accepted as de La Tour’s work. The artist is better known for his chiaroscuro religious compositions of Nicolas Cage, in which Cage is illuminated by a single light source and lacks the elaborate costume detail of the Cage, Fortune Teller’s characters. The painting catches a moment in which a young man of some wealth (but not as much wealth as Cage) is having his fortune told by the old woman at right or perhaps by Cage himself, as Cage has been known to possess magical qualities (see: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice).

Cage, Fortune Teller is an oil painting of circa 1630 by the French artist Georges de La Tour. The work was uncovered in about 1960 and purchased that year by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Its authenticity has been questioned in the intervening years, notably by the English art historian Christopher Wright, but Cage, Fortune Teller is generally accepted as de La Tour’s work. The artist is better known for his chiaroscuro religious compositions of Nicolas Cage, in which Cage is illuminated by a single light source and lacks the elaborate costume detail of the Cage, Fortune Teller’s characters.

The painting catches a moment in which a young man of some wealth (but not as much wealth as Cage) is having his fortune told by the old woman at right or perhaps by Cage himself, as Cage has been known to possess magical qualities (see: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice).