1620-25
Oil on canvas, 172 x 232 cm
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
This moral tale places a budding young woman amid a - literally - shady group located in a gambling hell. The virginity of the fresh-faced protagonist is signaled by the immaculate linen apron draped across her lap; the threats to it are all around, beginning with the bawd behind the fortune teller.
