Art, literature & history
The Mouth of Truth
c. 1512
- Dating
- Approximate
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- woodcut
- Dimensions
- sheet: 39.5 x 29.1 cm (15 9/16 x 11 7/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1943.3.5702
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Lucas van Leyden. The Mouth of Truth. Lucas van Leyden; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lucas_van_Leyden,_The_Mouth_of_Truth,_c._1512,_NGA_8626.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
The Mouth of Truth — Lucas van Leyden. c. 1512.
Medium: woodcut.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 39.5 x 29.1 cm (15 9/16 x 11 7/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1943.3.5702. Rosenwald Collection.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.