The Mouth of Truth

Titles

The Mouth of Truth	[http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2015/old-master-british-paintings-evening-sale-l15033/lot.8.html] (accessed 30-08-2017)
The Jaws of Truth	[Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, 125, No. 279]

Painting on beech wood

Medium

Painting on beech wood	[http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2015/old-master-british-paintings-evening-sale-l15033/lot.8.html] (accessed 30-08-2017) [Exhib. Cat. Basel 1974, 582, No. 481]
Beech wood	[Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, 125, No. 279]

According to Boccaccio a woman accused of adultery placed her hand in the mouth of a stone lion, whose teeth usually crushed the hands of those who had committed perjury. She pushes back a fool, who embraces her (it is her lover in disguise) and swears that no man except

[Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, 125, No. 278]

Attribution: Lucas Cranach the Elder

Attribution

Lucas Cranach the Elder

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[Exhib. Cat. Hamburg 2003, No. 83]
[Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, 125, No. 279]
[Exhib. Cat. Basel 1974, 582, No. 481]

Production dates: about 1528
about 1530

Production dates

about 1528	[Exhib. Cat. Basel 1974, 582, No. 481]
about 1525 - 1527	[Exhib. Cat. Hamburg 2003, No. 83]
about 1530	[Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, 125, No. 279]

Dimensions: Dimensions of support: 111 x 100 cm

Dimensions

Dimensions of support: 111 x 100 cm
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Signature / Dating: None

Owner: Private Collection
Repository: Private Collection

CDA ID: PRIVATE_NONE-P179
FR (1978) Nr.: FR279
Persistent Link: https://lucascranach.org/en/PRIVATE_NONE-P179/

Provenance

Coll. Countess Hardenberg, Neuhardenberg
Coll. Heinz Kisters, Kreuzlingen
[Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, 125, No. 279]
1. July 2015 Sotheby's London, Lot 8
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Exhibitions

Nuremberg 1963, No. 14
Basel 1974, No. 481
Hamburg 2003, No. 83
Frankfurt 2007/London 2008, No. 96
Brussels 2010, No. 122

Literature

Reference on page

Catalogue Number

Figure / Plate

Exhib. Cat. Hamburg 2003

82, 183

083

Pl. 83

Editor	Bucerius Kunst Forum, Werner Schade
Title	Lucas Cranach. Glaube, Mythologie und Moderne [Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg]
Place of Publication	Ostfildern-Ruit
Year of Publication	2003

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Koepplin 2003 C

144, 145

Fig. 6

Author	Dieter Koepplin
Title	Ein Cranach-Prinzip
Publication	in Heinz Spielmann, Werner Schade, eds., Lucas Cranach. Glaube, Mythologie und Moderne, Exhib. Cat. Hamburg 2003
Place of Publication	Ostfildern-Ruit
Year of Publication	2003
Pages	144-165

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Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979

125

No. 279

Fig. 279

Author	Max J. Friedländer, Jakob Rosenberg
Editor	G. Schwartz
Title	Die Gemälde von Lucas Cranach
Place of Publication	Basel, Boston, Stuttgart
Year of Publication	1979

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Exhib. Cat. Basel 1974/1976

481

Author	Dieter Koepplin, Tilman Falk
Title	Lukas Cranach. Gemälde, Zeichnungen und Druckgraphik
Volume	1, 2
Place of Publication	Basel, Stuttgart
Year of Publication	1974
Link	http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-diglit-104522

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Research History / Discussion

'This version is better than FR278, because the composition makes more sense and the execution is better.'

[Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, 125, No. 279]

Koepplin agrees with this opinion 'as a whole the composition is more sophisticated than that of the painting from 1534 [...]'

[Exhib. Cat. Basel 1974, 582, No. 481]

The Mouth of Truth, about 1528

Images

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