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Lucas Cranach the Elder: The Mouth of Truth  wikidata:Q116962638 reasonator:Q116962638
Artist
Lucas Cranach the Elder  (1472–1553)  wikidata:Q191748
 
Lucas Cranach the Elder
Alternative names
Lucas Cranach
Description -German painter, drawer, printmaker and court painter
Date of birth/death 4 October 1472 Edit this at Wikidata 16 October 1553 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Kronach Edit this at Wikidata Weimar Edit this at Wikidata
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Lutherstadt Wittenberg
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artist QS:P170,Q191748
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Title
The Bocca della Verità (The Fable of the Mouth of Truth)
label QS:Len,"The Bocca della Verità (The Fable of the Mouth of Truth)"
label QS:Lde,"Die Fabel vom Mund der Wahrheit / Bocca della Verità"
label QS:Lit,"La bocca della verità"
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Genre history painting Edit this at Wikidata
Description
The Fable of the Mouth of Truth. Painting on beechwood. The painting depicts the frequently employed late medieval theme of the "Wiles of Women". A woman charged with infidelity lays her hand in the jaws of the lion. She confesses only to have lain in the arms of her husband and the fool behind her. Because she is speaking the truth, the lion does not bite off her hand. The fool is, in fact, her disguised lover, but he is not taken seriously by any of the witnesses. The scene alludes to the Roman stone mask "Bocca della Verità", which according to legend bites off the hand of every liar.
Date between circa 1525 and circa 1528
date QS:P571, 1525-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319, 1525-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326, 1528-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium oil on beech wood
Dimensions height: 111 cm (43.7 in); width: 100 cm (39.3 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,111U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,100U174728
Private collection
institution QS:P195,Q768717
Place of creation Wittenberg
Object history From the collection of Countess Hardenberg, Schloss Neuhardenberg;
collection Heinz Kisters
Exhibition history
  • Nuremberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, and Münster, Landesmuseum für Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte, Sammlung Heinz Kisters. Altdeutsche und altnierderländische Malerei, 25 June – 15 September and 6 October – 17 November 1963, no. 14
  • Lukas Cranach. Gemälde, Zeichnungen, Druckgraphik, Basel, Kunstmuseum, 15 June – 8 September 1974, no. 481;
  • Hamburg, Bucerius Kunst Forum, Lucas Cranach. Glaube, Mythologie und Modernem, 6 April – 13 July 2003, no. 83;
  • Frankfurt am Main, Städel Museum, and London, Royal Academy of Arts, Cranach, 23 November 2007 – 17 February 2008 and 8 March – 8 June 2008, no. 96;
  • Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles, L’univers de Lucas Cranach, 20 October 2010 – 23 January 2011, no. 122.
Notes Friedländer, Rosenberg (1978) No.: FR274
Friedländer, Rosenberg (1979) No.: FR279
References Cranach Digital Archive
Source/Photographer Sotheby's, London, 08 Juli 2015, lot 8

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