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Also Known As the Met
Date 1870 - present
Related People Richard Morris Hunt • John Frederick Kensett • William Henry Vanderbilt • Benjamin Altman • Luigi Palma di Cesnola

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The Fortune-Teller, oil on canvas by Georges de La Tour, probably the 1630s; in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. (101.9 x 123.5 cm.) (The Fortune Teller)
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