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Brejon de Laver\u0002gn\u00e9e  (A.), 1987a) ; salon de l\u2019Appartemen int\u00e9rieur du roi entre 1684 et 1701; Appartement frais au ch\u00e2teau-neuf de Meudon, 1706; cabinet des Tableaux de la surintendance des B\u00e2timents \u00e0 Versailles, 1709 (cf. Engerand, 1899); envoy\u00e9 au mus\u00e9e sp\u00e9cial de l\u2019\u00c9cole fran\u00e7aise au ch\u00e2teau de Versailles, 1797 (A.M.N., 35  DD  1, fol. 6); retour au Louvre, 1814 (A.M.N., *P12, fol. 98 : 14 d\u00e9cembre 1814)\r\n\r\nCommentaire\r\nLe sujet et la mise en sc\u00e8ne d\u00e9rivent de mod\u00e8les caravagesques. Mais alors que les suiveurs du Caravage exploitent le burlesque, Valentin donne aux personnes une dignit\u00e9 et m\u00eame un air de tristesse m\u00e9lancolique qui transforment l\u2019atmosph\u00e8re du tableau. L\u2019on remarque notam\u0002ment la gravit\u00e9 des deux protagonistes et celle du jeune homme apparaissant au second plan, le visage inclin\u00e9 appuy\u00e9 sur la main, dans l\u2019attitude traditionnelle de la m\u00e9lancolie. L\u2019anecdote demeure pr\u00e9sente suivant le principe du trompeur tromp\u00e9 : ainsi la diseuse de bonne aventure, qui exploite la cr\u00e9dulit\u00e9 d\u2019un jeune homme, est elle\u0002m\u00eame vol\u00e9e par des mains qui surgissent de l\u2019ombre \u00e0 gauche. Dans la partie oppos\u00e9e, \u00e0 droite, Valentin met en sc\u00e8ne deux musiciens : une joueuse de guitare, instrument habituel des bas-fonds de Rome au d\u00e9but du xviie si\u00e8cle, mais aussi un joueur de harpe, instrument plus inattendu, qui a peut-\u00eatre une signification symbolique. En effet, dans son Trait\u00e9 des instruments de musique r\u00e9dig\u00e9 vers 1640, Pierre Trichet pr\u00e9cise que la harpe peut \u00eatre associ\u00e9e au vol : \u00abpar m\u00e9taphore, jouer de la harpe se prend pour d\u00e9rober\u00bb (cf. Lemoine, 2017b). La Diseuse de bonne aventure a \u00e9t\u00e9 pr\u00e9sent\u00e9e dans l\u2019attique du salon de l\u2019Appartement int\u00e9rieur de Louis XIV \r\njusqu\u2019\u00e0 la transformation de cette pi\u00e8ce en chambre en 1701. Le tableau a \u00e9t\u00e9 restaur\u00e9 par Edgard Aillet \u00e0 Montauban en 1940.","jabachInventory":"","napoleonInventory":"","previousOwner":[],"acquisitionDetails":[{"mode":"entr\u00e9e - Collection de Louis XIV","doubt":"","dates":[{"type":"date","value":"1683","startYear":1683,"endYear":1683}]}],"ownedBy":"Etat","heldBy":"Mus\u00e9e du Louvre, D\u00e9partement des Peintures","longTermLoanTo":"","index":{"Mode d\u0027acquisition":[{"value":"entr\u00e9e - Collection de Louis XIV"}]},"bibliography":[{"bibliographyRef":"Pr\u00e9dictions : les artistes face \u00e0 l\u0027avenir, cat. exp. (exposition, Bourg-en-Bresse, Monast\u00e8re royal de Brou,20 mars-23 juin 2024; Cherbourg-en-Cotentin, mus\u00e9e Thomas Henry, 12 juillet - 16 octobre 2024), Paris, In Fine, 2024","bibliographyDate":"2024","bibliographyDetail":"p. 66-75, ill.coul, fig.7","comparison":false},{"bibliographyRef":"Vernejoul, Nikita de, Pietro Paolini. 1603-1681. 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