Josephine and the Fortune-Teller

Josephine and the Fortune-Teller is an 1837 history painting by the British artist David Wilkie. It depicts a story about the young Joséphine de Beauharnais visiting a fortune teller on her native island of Martinique, who predicts her future in France as the wife of Emperor Napoleon.

The painting was produced at the suggestion of William Knighton and was commissioned by the politician John Abel Smith. The previous year Wilkie had produced a painting featuring Josephine's husband Napoleon and Pius VII at Fontainebleau.

It was exhibited at the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition in London. Today the painting is in the collection of the Scottish National Gallery, in Edinburgh, having been purchased in 1949.