Can You Spot the Theft in This Painting?

The young man buys a prediction while losing possessions in the present. CHAPTERS 0:00 The Hand He Is Not Watching 0:51 The Transaction Beside the Transaction 1:25 The Chain Leads to a Second Theft 2:27 Why We Miss the Hands 3:19 A Familiar Story for Its First Viewers 4:22 A Painting Rediscovered Centuries Later 5:09 The Future and the Present SOURCES Met: The Fortune-Teller, object 436838 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436838 QAGOMA / Met exhibition: Braided treasure https://metgoma.art/tours/colour-and-pigment/fortune-teller Met object metadata https://collectionapi.metmuseum.org/public/collection/v1/objects/436838 Met: Image and Data Resources https://www.metmuseum.org/policies/image-resources IMAGE CREDITS Georges de La Tour, The Fortune-Teller, probably 1630s, oil on canvas. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1960, 60.30. CC0 Open Access museum image. File: artwork-master.jpg. Faithful crops/resizing and separate annotations. Original script and explanatory guides by The Art Detail. Authentic registered reproductions; guides are labelled. Licensed synthetic narration: Andrew Dragon HD Latest. The Art Detail · Small details. Remarkable stories.