Metropolitan Museum of Art 5th Avenue at 82nd Street New York New York 10028 Accession Number: 21.159.1
Date:
Ca. 1894
Notes:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975.
Spassky, Natalie, "American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume II: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born between 1816 and 1845," New York, NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985, pg. 295.
Summary:
A mother holding her child on her lap as a fortune teller approaches to point out the future. The mother and child seem passive in contrast to the aggressive figure of the fortune teller with red-orange hair and dark torn clothing.
