Which painting tells its story through where people look?

Some of these pictures hide the plot in a glance, others in a pointing finger or a look nobody returns. Follow the eyes and decide which one tells it best.

1. 1
   The Conjurer

   Bosch-school panel where the crowd stares at a ball while a thief looking up at the sky cuts a purse.
   1000pts

   BE
2. 2
   Las Meninas

   Velázquez's 1656 court scene where the painter, the princess and her maids all look out at the king and queen, seen only in a mirror.
   1000pts
3. 3
   The Raft of the Medusa

   Géricault's shipwreck survivors all strain toward a tiny ship on the horizon.
   945pts
4. 4
   The Calling of Saint Matthew

   Caravaggio's 1600 scene where Christ points at a tax collector, who looks back as if asking: me?
   862pts
5. 5
   The Cardsharps

   Caravaggio's card game where an older cheat peeks over the victim's shoulder and signals his partner.
   764pts
6. 6
   The Cheat with the Ace of Diamonds

   Georges de La Tour's card game told almost entirely by sideways glances between the cheats.
   647pts
7. 7
   A Bar at the Folies-Bergère

   Manet's 1882 barmaid stares past us while the mirror behind her shows a man we cannot see in front.
   647pts
8. 8
   The Last Supper (Leonardo)

   Leonardo's mural in Milan where the apostles turn to each other at the words that one of them will betray Christ.
   647pts
9. 9
   Unexpected Visitors

   Ilya Repin's 1884 painting of an exile returning home, where every family member meets him with a different look.
   503pts
10. 10
    Olympia

    Manet's 1863 nude who looks the viewer straight in the eye, which scandalized Paris.
    503pts
11. 11
    The Tête à Tête

    Hogarth's newlyweds look anywhere but at each other after a night apart.
    503pts
12. 12
    The Ambassadors

    Holbein's 1533 double portrait with a stretched skull that only snaps into shape when you look from the side.
    503pts
13. 13
    The Last Supper (Rubens)

    Rubens's Last Supper in the Brera, where Judas alone turns away from Christ and looks at the viewer.
    0pts
14. 14
    American Gothic

    Grant Wood's 1930 farmer stares at us while the woman beside him looks away.
    0pts
15. 15
    The Swing

    Fragonard's rococo swing scene where a young man in the bushes looks up the woman's skirt.
    0pts
16. 16
    Landscape with the Fall of Icarus

    A Bruegel-school painting where nobody, not the ploughman nor the shepherd, looks at Icarus falling into the sea.
    0pts

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