An Allegory of Truth and Falsehood (verso)

1835/1845

Fortunato Duranti

Artist, Italian, 1787 - 1863

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Artwork overview

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.

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

Q64562122

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