The scene depicts a group of men around a fortune teller that was attributed by Gustav Friedrich Waagen.

[2] Moving to Rome would have been highly influential in this painting as there are art characteristics he would soon learn that would be embedded into his own style.

The theme of the painting is the dangers that could be found in the streets of Rome at the time and includes various figures robbing each other.

[3] The table looks to be made out of marble and features an inscription of sorts on the front facing the viewer.

[3] The cheater being cheated is a reference to deceit, which was a common trait of both men and women during the early 17th century in Rome.

[6] In the instance of Boulogne's Fortune Teller, there is a lot of overlapping of body parts that can be confusing to paint.

Valentin de Boulogne then joined the Bamboccianti in 1624 where he adopted more elements of their style into his own, still utilizing what he learned as a Caravaggisti .

It has been recorded that Boulogne experimented with similar paintings of Roman low life genre scenes between 1614 and the 1620s through a catalogue of this work.

[3] He used the similar theme of tavern scenes featuring characters like fortune tellers, thieves, and soldiers.

[10] This painting was attributed to Valentin de Boulogne by Dr Gustav Friedrich Waagen when he visited Belvoir Castle in the early 19th century .

[3] It was later sold to a private collection in Britain on July 1, 1953 by Sotheby's in London and this sale was the first with Valentin Boulogne as the artist.

[3] In 1982, this painting was shown in both the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the National Galleries of the Grand Palais in Paris.

[13] This was a joint collaboration for the exhibit titled France in the Golden Age: Seventeenth-Century French Paintings in American Collections.

[13] It was then displayed in the National Gallery of Canada for the exhibit Caravaggio and His Followers in Rome from June 17, 2011 to January 8, 2012.

[13] The painting was then used for the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Musée du Louvre from October 4, 2016 to May 15, 2017 for Valentin de Boulogne: Beyond Caravaggio.