Falsehood Is the Cause of All Evil (recto); An Allegory of Truth and Falsehood (verso), 1835/1845

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Medium

pen and ink with wash on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 19.8 x 26.2 cm (7 13/16 x 10 5/16 in.)

Credit Line

Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Patrons' Permanent Fund

Accession Number

2007.111.71.a

Artists / Makers

Fortunato Duranti (artist) Italian, 1787 - 1863

Image Use

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Inscription

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

Provenance

Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.

Associated Names

Stiftung Ratjen

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.