The Fortune Teller is a painting that shows a royal man of the period on the viewer's right who is getting his palm read by a peasant woman who seems to be of the middle class. She must be a fortune teller, based on the title, who is fairly good at her profession since I imagine she started as a very poor peasant woman and has grown into what she is today. She is wearing a white blouse, accompanied by a white hat and a red throw-over. He is adorned in a feather cap along with a felt, crumpled red / orange shirt with black outlining. He has brown hunting gloves to accompany his holstered sword that has a marvelously formed hilt. Strangely, the two people are standing slightly to the right, not centered, as many normal paintings are. But, of course we know by now, Caravaggio was a mannerist at heart and wanted the majority of his paintings to be asymmetrical.
