Josephine and the Fortune-Teller is an 1837 history painting by the British artist David Wilkie.

[1] It depicts a story about the young Joséphine de Beauharnais visiting a fortune teller on her native island of Martinique, who predicts her future in France as the wife of Emperor Napoleon.

[2] The painting was produced at the suggestion of William Knighton and was commissioned by the politician John Abel Smith.

[3] The previous year Wilkie had produced a painting featuring Josephine's husband Napoleon and Pius VII at Fontainebleau.

[4] Today the painting is in the collection of the Scottish National Gallery, in Edinburgh, having been purchased in 1949.