Falsehood Is the Cause of All Evil (recto); An Allegory of Truth and Falsehood (verso)
1835/1845
Artist, Italian, 1787 - 1863
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Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and ink with wash on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 19.8 x 26.2 cm (7 13/16 x 10 5/16 in.)
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Accession
2007.111.71.a
Associated Artworks
An Allegory of Truth and Falsehood (verso)
Fortunato Duranti
1835
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2011
Italian Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1525-1835, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2011, no. 65.
2014
From Neoclassicism to Futurism: Italian Prints and Drawings, 1800- 1925, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2014 - 2015.
Inscriptions
across bottom, brown ink: la bugia e causa di tutti mali; on tablet, brown ink: vert/ciorno; on verso, along bottom in brown ink: la bugia e la verita combattano insieme la bugia arde il Savio avole [?] il mantello e nega larsura via; on book in brown ink: ochi/A/anco
Wikidata ID
Q64562121