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The Bocca Della Verità (The Mouth of Truth) by 
																	Lucas Cranach

Lucas Cranach the Elder

( German, 1472 - 1553 )

The Bocca Della Verità (The Mouth of Truth)

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Materials:

oil on red beechwood panel

Measurements:

43.70 in. (111.00 cm.) (height) by 39.37 in. (100.00 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

Nuremberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, and Munster, Landesmuseum für Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte, Sammlung Heinz Kisters. Altdeutsche und altnierderländische Malerei, 25 June - 15 September and 6 October - 17 November 1963, no. 14;. Basel, Kunstmuseum, Lukas Cranach. Gemälde, Zeichnungen, Druckgraphik, 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.

Literature:

B. Kurth, ‘Das Zauberers Virgil Eherbrecherfalle auf Werkender nordischen Renaissance’, in Städel Jahrbuch, 1924/28, pp. 49-54;. M. J. Friedländer and J. Rosenberg, Die Gemälde von Lucas Cranach, Berlin 1932, p. 71, no. 229;. L. Ettlinger, ‘Ehebrecherfalle’, in Reallexikon zur deutschen Kunstgeschichte, 4, 1958 pp. 786-91;. P. Strieder and D. Stemmler, Sammlung Heinz Kisters. Altdeutsche und altnierderländische Malerei, exh. cat., Nuremberg 1963, p. 5, no. 14;. D. Koepplin and T. Falk, Lukas Cranach, Gemälde, Zeichnungen, Druckgraphik, exh. cat., Basel and Stuttgart, 1974, vol. II, p. 582, no. 481, reproduced plate 14;. M. J. Friedländer and J. Rosenberg, The Paintings of Lucas Cranach, London 1978, p. 124, no. 279, reproduced;. W. Schade, ‘Lucas Cranach’, in Malerei und Plastik. Meilensteine der bildende Kunst in Deutschland ( Das Erbe der Deutschen), Stuttgart 1991, pp. 72-75, detail reproduced on cover;. W. Schade, Lucas Cranach. Glaube, Mythologie und Modernem, exh. cat., Hamburg 2003, p. 183, no. 83, reproduced p. 82;. B. Brinkmann, Cranach, exh. cat., London 2007, pp. 314-15, no. 96, reproduced and p. 110 (detail);. G. Messling, Cranach et son temps, exh. cat., Brussels 2010, pp. 216-17, no. 122, reproduced, and p. 237.

Provenance:

From the collection of Countess Hardenberg, Schloss Neuhardenberg;. Acquired by the father of the present owner.

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