For the first time in my brief but intense life as a Old Masters copyist, I attempted a masterpiece by Georges de la Tour. "La buona ventura", or "The Fortune teller"(1630). The very light palette adopted for the painting taught me a lot regarding the use and the difficult relations of colors like red, pink, orange and violet mastered by De la Tour with great confidence herein. His attention at the details of the clothes, the jewels and most of all at the expressions of the c