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Josephine and the Fortune-Teller
1837
Oil on canvas, 211 x 158 cm
National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh
Josephine is represented as a young woman in Martinique, hearing the fortune-teller reading her palm predict her elevation to Empress. The subject is taken from Josephine's Memoirs of Napoleon, which appeared in 1829.