which the artist had recently left the workshop of the Giuseppe Cesari to make his own way selling paintings through the dealer Costantino. The subject of the painting was not unprecedented. In his Lives of the Artists, Giorgio Vasari notes that one of Franciabigio's followers, his brother Agnolo, painted a sign for a perfumer's shop "containing a gipsy woman telling the fortune of a lady in a very graceful manner". See also List of paintings by Caravaggio Further reading Jürgen Müller: Weitere Gründe dafür, warum Maler lügen. Überlegungen zu Caravaggios Handlesender Zigeunerin aus dem Louvre, in: Steffen Haug, Hans Georg Hiller von Gaertringen, Caroline Philipp et al (Ed.): Arbeit am Bild. Ein Album für Michael Diers, Cologne 2010, pp. 156–167. References External links A Caravaggio Rediscovered, The Lute Player, an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on this painting (see cat. no. 1) Paintings by Caravaggio 1590s paintings Paintings in the Louvre by Italian artists Paintings in the Capitoline Museums