"The Fortune Teller" is one of the most famous paintings of the popular Orientalism artist Rudolf Ernst, depicts a fortune teller reading a woman's future outside an arched portico. The eclectic components of the composition - the banded stonework, the woman's flowing robes, the gleaming yellow dishdasha of the fortune teller, and the well-worn wooden bench on which he sits - make this painting, like many of Ernst's best works, a veritable tapestry in pattern and texture, a cumulative memory of his disparate travels in the Orient.