# Top 11 Paintings of Magicians and Tricksters

> Street conjurers, card cheats and quack doctors sit next to surrealist sorcerers. Half of them want your attention, the other half want your purse.

*By YPB Team · Published October 24, 2026 · https://youpick.best/ranking/top-11-paintings-of-magicians-and-tricksters*

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## Current results (1 vote)

1. **The Cardsharps** — score 1000/1000
   Caravaggio's two cheats fleecing a naive young card player.
2. **The Fortune Teller (La Tour)** — score 839/1000
   Georges de La Tour's old fortune teller distracts a youth while her companions rob him.
3. **The Fortune Teller (Caravaggio)** — score 732/1000
   Caravaggio's gypsy girl reads a young man's palm and slips the ring off his finger.
4. **The Conjurer** — score 599/1000
   Bosch-school panel of a street magician doing cups and balls while an accomplice steals a purse.
5. **The Juggler (The Magician)** — score 599/1000
   Remedios Varo's 1956 painting of a magician with a pentagram face performing from a carnival cart.
6. **The Conjuror (Hone)** — score 0/1000
   Nathaniel Hone's 1775 satire of Joshua Reynolds as an old magician conjuring paintings out of Old Master prints.
7. **The Extraction of the Stone of Madness** — score 0/1000
   Bosch's quack surgeon in a funnel hat cuts a stone of folly out of a patient's head.
8. **Saint James and the Magician Hermogenes** — score 0/1000
   Bruegel's 1564 design of a magician's den full of witches, demons and flying brooms.
9. **Prestidigitator** — score 0/1000
   Paul Klee's 1927 conjuring trick in thin lines, now in the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
10. **The Quack** — score 0/1000
   Gerrit Dou's 1652 crowd around a medicine seller in Leiden, with the painter himself watching from a window.
11. **The Magician (tarot card)** — score 0/1000
   Pamela Colman Smith's 1909 card for the Rider–Waite tarot, a magician with the tools of all four suits on his table.

Tags: painting, art, magic, tricksters