This previously unpublished pastel is recorded by the early biographers of the artist: Doray de Longrais, Prange and Azara. Both Doray and Prange mention that the pastel was in the Royal Collection in Dresden, but as it is listed in none of the relevant inventories they were either mistaken or the drawing was not there for long. Before the reappearance of this pastel the composition was known through a drawing after it by Nicolaus Mosmannn in the British Museum and an autograph painting, in an inscribed oval, with Chaucer Fine Arts, Paintings and Sculpture, Works of Art, 1988, no. 23. The Chaucer Fine Arts painting was dated by Dr. Steffi Röttgen to the 1750s, and the present drawing presumably dates from the same period.

In the drawing Truth holds a peach with a single leaf, symbol of the heart and the tongue joined to speak the truth. She wears no adornment and is clothed in a veil, which in numerous allegorical representations is lifted away by Time